God America I Symbolism

From another perspective, the simile in the line further indicates that the soldiers had also lost their human rights, not to mention their basic funeral rights. The soldiers had been brutally slaughtered like cows. This hints at the extreme brutality and savagery of the war. Pointing out this fact, Owen reveals his dismay about the reality of war. In conclusion, using the rhetorical question and simile, he portrays the war as a place, where innocent youths are being wasted and discarded. He implies his negative and skeptical perspective on this aspect of

Furthermore, the poem breaks up the speaker’s dialogue at key points. In line 9, for example, the word “beautiful” used to describe the selfless actions of soldiers voluntarily dying for their country is split between two lines, demonstrating that the words the politician is speaking hold no strength or validity and that there is no beauty in dying even for your country The lack of proper punctuation that mergers lines together and the extended length of the first stanza lends an air of nonsense, adding to the idea that this presumably patriotic speech is empty of any meaning; the speaker is simply rambling on, “and so forth” (line 2), and reciting worn out, cliché sayings such as “heroic happy dead” in line 10 that ring hollow (“E.E. Cummings,” n.d.). The last line denotes a new speaker who serves to expose the corruption of the first speaker by stating that the politician “[drinks] rapidly a glass of water” because he just thoughtlessly, and nervously, attempted to opaque the fallacies of patriotism with propaganda (Brierley, 2013).

The poem starts with similar word choices as ‘The Soldier’ but written in the perspective of the mother. The mother tells his son that when he dies he will be in a place of ‘quietness’ and free from the ‘loss and bloodshed’. This reinforces the fact that the battlefield was full of horrors and death. The poem then moves onto how ‘men may rest themselves and dream of nought’ explaining that the soldiers do not have to fear for their lives after their death. This illustrates how they feared for their lives and had negative connotations.

He touches on their tragic deaths compared to their hopeful letters of going home and seeing their loved ones. He describes his astonishment as he realizes that none of these men actually showed hatred or abuse towards the German, they simply believed and had conviction in the justice behind their cause. This letter illustrates the feelings of a once happy man, now stuck at war. He says, "War hardens ones hearts and blunts ones feelings…"(p.68). This young soldier has lost all signs of the happy life he led back home. The harshness of war got to him just like the rest of the soldiers out there and if they so much as dreamed about accepting the reality around them, they would have gone either insane or surrendered and he could not give himself that luxury so onward he went.

This is shown by the way the soldiers were “coughing like hags”. He would have seen many people die in distress and, having experienced one of the most destructive wars in history, he has a very unfavourable view of war. He was involved in the First World War, so he knows the realities of warfare. I can see that his poem is aimed at poets who wrote about glory, honour and patriotism (such as Tennyson) by the use of the word “you” in the poem. He wants to clearly show the realities of conflict behind the heroism and splendour, and this is shown by the vivid language and imagery used.

The first stanza tells the reader that the writer glorified war and hoped to be a solider. In the second stanza, the battles that he speaks of aren’t real, they’re battles that he has imagined. The battles and innumerable wounds could be metaphors for his hard upbringing (3-4). The poem uses a lot of figurative language to portray the authors youthful imagination. Simic imagines what it would be like to be a solider, by playing with cardboard swords and boasting about “Slain thousands” (4).

It represents the innocent lives disregarded in times of war. The image of the soldiers resting his hand on the deceased lion creates an emotional state for the reader to experience. The soldier’s dialogue states that the soldier understands the other had no choice but to adopt the life of an innocent life form. It displays empathy and a level of compassion for the horrific aftermath. The author attempts to reach out to the reader by showing them that soldiers often have to make split second decisions in a way that can have irreversible implications. This slaughtering of the animals, unknown to the human soldiers, undermined and took away the hope that lions had towards a new life. The newfound freedom and struggle the characters were forced to reconcile suddenly

A "symbol of our country" means nothing. As someone who took an oath to defend our country (you know the oath) and protect the US constitution of the USA, I see a lot of rhetoric similar to yours used to criminalize flag burning and it is completely unfounded. Burning the US flag is a 1st amendment right of any citizen that feels distressed with where our country and our government is headed. The American flag is not only a symbol of freedom, but it is also a symbol of corruption, slavery hypocrisy and tyranny. What it boils down to are the actions of the people of this country and our leaders; that's what makes this country great! It is definitely not a piece of fabric. We as Americans should take more offense to the fact that our country

(Conroy, Mary James, Claude McKay) His human pity was the foundation that made all this possible McKay also wrote on a variety of subjects, from his Jamaican homeland to romantic love, with a use of passionate language. If we must die-let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, while round us bark the mad hungry dogs (MacKay) 1-2 who wants to die losing a battle with no pride most of all without dignity but if we must go we may as well go down fighting and be honored with dignity afterwards instead of losing everything and be forgotten without a purpose give them something to talk about remember us by. They must die. No choice about it; no question about it The attackers harass in a humiliating way, almost celebrating their dominance over their victims. The poem uses quatrains iambic pentameter in majority of the poem. It seems to be conditional to begin each sentence in the octave There is an extended simile where African Americans are being compared to hogs He calls on them to fight back even though they have no chance of winning. The attackers harass in a humiliating way, almost celebrating their dominance over their victims. "Mocking" is making fun of someone, except there is no fun in mocking (MacKay) 4 The poem uses this simile to show how the brutality and un-human nature of the attacks on African Americans were. McKay shows how he doesn 't want to end up beaten and battered like a wild animal no one

Claude MacKaye’s uses a simile to show how he doesn 't want to end up beaten and battered like a wild animal no one will care for nor remember in the line "If we must die-let it not be like hogs” (Claude McKay). (1919-1940)

The first stanza is addressed to ‘old men’ and how they should not simply slip away and die quietly, they should fight death until the end. Poetic techniques

The poet then presents a scene of patriotic relevance as he describes a scene of a regiment marching into battle with their “flag” and “Eagle with crest of red and gold” (17-18). When people think of flags, they think of patriotism and representing their country. Eagles also symbolize freedom but as readers can witness in the work, the poet makes it seem as if these men were created not to enjoy the gift of life for one moment by him saying “These men were born to drill and die” (19). This comes across to the reader as almost inhumane. Then by illustrating an image of a field of thousands of dead corpses makes any reader wonder why people even go to war. The whole fourth stanza paints a picture of living human being going into a battle with most, if not any, making it out alive. Like stated before, the speaker in the poem builds a case for those people that opposed to war even though the title of the poem might

Since the soldiers could do nothing to help the dying man they “flung” (line 18) him behind a wagon. This shows how people are dehumanized in war and their lives are disposable and can simply be flung away to become another statistic. When the narrator says, “In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,” (line 15) it insinuates that all his dreams have been replaced by nightmares of the chilling memory of how he could not do anything to help his fellow soldier. He can only replay the horrific memory of the gas attack over and over inside his head. The reader cannot help but visualize this young soldier dying a slow, painful death. This emphasizes the sarcasm in the title. How can anyone glorify a death so horrible?

The powerful metaphors employed in this work compare the “good night” with the crushing blow of death and the“wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight” to heroism and achievement. Dylan uses oxymorons and similes to emphasize the desperation he felt to highlight the conflicts of man. The “blinding sight”, the “fierce tears” and the “blind eyes [that] could blaze like meteors and be gay,” serve

This is when the poem switches from describing the setting to describing the one of the characters a dying soldiers. "And floundring like a man fire or lime" "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning" gives us a view of what they see using this simile as the one soldier dies very painfully not quick but its slowly. The narrator says that "In all my dreams, before my helpless sight" to let the reader know that he relives this moment over and over and is haunted by the sight. The gas weapon in the story is a very unique way that the soldiers can die and its not the typical way most people would think a soldier would die. Most peole think that death would be most common in battle with the enemy in a fire fight with bullets. The author does this on purpose to emphasize his theme, that it's not what most people believe about war.