Bordens And Tennyson's Poems: The Song Of The Mud

The war brings enormous damages to humanity. People who survive war suffer from psychological problems. In the excerpt from, A Long Way Gone, a boy who managed to stay alive through war suffers from the past memories that are even in his dreams, “I was afraid to fall asleep, but staying awake also brought back painful memories. Memories I sometimes wish I could wash away” (Beah). This quote makes it clear that people who went through war suffer mentally from unwillingly dreaming of war and memories that suddenly come to their heads. The image “In Times of War” also shows that humanity suffers from war. In the cartoon picture, there are people lying

How does the poet use language forms, features and structures to convey ideas and feelings?

Poems consist of a variation of different techniques in order to convey a message or idea to readers. Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Adrienne Rich, Bruce Dawe and Robert Browning are great poets who explore these issues, conveying their emotions, which influences a perception of an issue. In each of their poems they express the hidden message of hope, along with their main message. They use similar techniques to express their ideas, which illustrates their purpose to the reader.

The poem refers to the trench warfare the soldiers occupied in. The tone of Borden’s poem was sarcastic and she helped establish that tone by using sarcastic diction, including “The pale yellow glistering,” “covers the hills like satin,” and “the thin elastic mud.” These lines support her sarcastic tone by almost making mud seem satisfying, and letting it appear alive to indicate the active role mud played in trench warfare. Another example of diction used in the poem is “He has set a new style in clothing; he has introduced the chic of mud.” In this line, Borden’s diction is ironic - as well as sarcastic - since mud is not chic, but rather putrid. The second poem in the collection was written by Wilfred Owen, one of the most known poets of World War I. The title of his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” was inspired by the Roman poet, Horace’s Odes, whose poetry was taught in British schools, which Wilfred attended. The purpose of the poem is to share the cruel experience soldiers go through during the war. “Bent double, like old beggars under

the poem. Not only does the choice of diction determine the tone, but also the order in which

Not only do these poems share differences through the speakers childhood, but also through the tones of the works.

War has always been an unfortunate part of our society and civilization. War will sadly and undoubtedly be with us as long as we exist. However, the portrayal of war for many centuries gave a sense of patriotism and romanticism. Then the invention of the camera changed how humanity perceived war in the late to mid 19th century. And all of a sudden, images of war became of shear violence and destruction. The violence in these images would play a significant part in the social and political standpoints of war in our nation.

Owen’s poem vividly depicts the horrors of war and, Borden’s poem describes the soldier's struggle with the horrors of the appearance of the trench mud. The speaker in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” role shifts from being an observer of the gassed soldier to being immediately involved in his suffering, as the soldier “plunges at” the speaker. This shift suggests that the horror of war never leaves someone who has lived through it; even today, the speaker sees the soldier plunging at him. In “The Song of the Mud”, The speaker describes the mud as glistening, golden, beautiful, mysterious, gleaming, and silvery. She compares it to satin and enamel and a crown and ermine. This conflicts with the image of the mud as obscene, filthy, putrid; a slimy nuisance, with voluminous lips and a distended belly. The speaker uses this contrast to show the danger and deadliness of the mud. The “beautiful glistening golden mud” is also the misery of all soldiers and the grave of many. The speaker means that the mud hides the truth about the war zone. You can’t tell just how many men have died, or how horrible or violent their deaths were because the glistening mud covers

Poetry is considered to be a representational text in which one explores ideas by using symbols. Poetry can be interpreted many different ways and is even harder to interpret when the original author has come and gone. Poetry is an incredible form of literature because the way it has the ability to use the reader as part of its own power. In other words, poetry uses the feelings and past experiences of the reader to interpret things differently from one to another, sometimes not even by choice of the author. Two famous poets come to mind to anybody who has ever been in an English class, Robert Frost and E.E. Cummings. Both of these poets have had numerous famous pieces due to the fact that they both

This repetitive theme causes us to believe that war is cruel in the way that it never really ends for the

If anything is known about war, it progressively gets worse throughout history. The weapons have become far more powerful, the losses are much greater, and worst of all, soldiers visions of hell have become a reality. War, centuries ago, seemed to young eager young men as an adventure, a chance for glory, an honorable way to die; however, these opinions shifted as time went on. Many if not most of the soldiers today go to war to defend their country, their loved ones, and everything else they hold dear in the hopes that the battles they fight will one day come to an end and they will be able to come home. Millions of soldiers kept their journals, shared their own war stories, or have had their legends written and passed down throughout the

The novel To Kill a Mockingbird is similar to the poem written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, one of the first influential black poets in American literature, We Wear the Mask. Both had parts were they it told what they were thinking but didn’t act out. They also have in common that people tell lies. Calpurnia "wears a mask" in chapter 12 by telling lies, she didn’t say what was on her mind, and she behaves differently.

Poetry has a role in society, not only to serve as part of the aesthetics or of the arts. It also gives us a view of what the society is in the context of when it was written and what the author is trying to express through words. The words as a tool in poetry may seem ordinary when used in ordinary circumstance. Yet, these words can hold more emotion and thought, however brief it was presented.

In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by

War makes all its soldiers its victims. It strips them of their innocence; all had dreams for their future. Their future will become a lost life or a life full of memories that will continue to haunt them. The memories of killing, friends being killed, almosts, etc. War contains many horrors like these.