In Flanders Field John Mccrae

The poem, “In Flanders Fields,” is impregnated with imagery. “This poem was literally born of fire and blood during the hottest phase of the second battle of Ypres.” John McCrae had just lost his very close

Although Daniel Defoe endeavors to portray Moll Flanders as an autobiography and convince readers that the sordid affairs of Moll actually occurred, readers can find through the reading of his work that Moll Flanders is undoubtedly a completely fictional character. It can be evidenced in the preface and mainly in the dichotomous nature of Moll that she could not possibly be a real person and is just a fictional character. Defoe betrays the credibility of Moll as a real person mainly through the extremeness of her seemingly ever-changing personality. Instead of just having slight to medial shifts of ideas or character, Moll swiftly goes from one end of the spectrum to the other.

Wilfred Owens poem “Dulce et Decorum est” and Bruce Dawe’s poem “Homecoming” are poems from different wars, however both highlight the indignity of war. Owen’s poem is broken up into three sections, where he expresses the torture soldiers suffer

In the fifth stanza he uses imagery in a different instance where he describes how ignorant the veteran was about the reality as he is only thinking of the glorification of war. He portrays an image of “jewelled hilts”, “daggers in plaid socks;”, “smart salutes” and “Esprit de corps”. Throughout the stanza we hear of the glories and amusements of war but only on the last line does he mention the aftermath of the war where he was discharged due to his disability.

The poem was written to show that war is a waste of human life as the soldier knows he will die one day as well as the men around him, just some quicker than others. This can be evident in stanza four of the poem: “I know I’ll join them somewhere, one day.” The language used is more casual than formative, this is effective as it shows the personal feelings and thoughts of the soldier during the time

Wilfred Owen can be considered as one of the finest war poets of all times. His war poems, a collection of works composed between January 1917, when he was first sent to the Western Front, and November 1918, when he was killed in action, use a variety of poetic techniques to allow the reader to empathise with his world, situation, emotions and thoughts. The sonnet form, para-rhymes, ironic titles, voice, and various imagery used by Owen grasp the prominent central idea of the complete futility of war as well as explore underlying themes such as the massive waste of young lives, the horrors of war, the hopelessness of war and the loss of religion. These can be seen in the three poems, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and

Tennyson uses aural imagery such and alliteration to express the sounds of battle, for example "shot and shell" reflect the sounds of the bullets fired at the brigade from every direction, providing with highly effective sound effects to the poem. Tennyson also uses a lot of repetition and anaphora in the poem, intended to communicate the relentlessness of the charge, and of the dangers faced by the soldiers. The quotation "Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them" presents the dangers as being unavoidable, with death inevitable. Furthermore, by using the biblical connotation of the "Valley of Death"- the central imagery of the poem - he emphasises how important this battle was, elevating the soldiers of the Light Brigade to heroes. Furthermore, Tennyson uses a rhetorical question at the beginning of the final stanza: "When can their glory fade?" to emphasise and conclude the point he was making in the five previous stanzas: their glory should not fade, as their sacrifice is symbolic of all those who sacrifice their lives for the

“Attack” The poem “Attack” is about how the war is from the inside of the battlefield. The poem explains the battlefield like it is a terrible place to be in and experience. It explains war as this living hell where there is nothing but fire, smoke, loud noises and gunfire. The planes roaring as they hover over the battlefield and lower to the ground to drop bombs and gunfire, body parts are flying over the fields, tanks are slowly creeping over the hills, the only expressions on the soldiers’ faces are anger and fear; it’s chaos.

Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” is a poem made of four stanzas in an a, b, a, b rhyme scheme. There is hardly any rhythm to the entire poem, although Owen makes it sound like it is in iambic pentameter in some lines. Every stanza has a different amount of lines, ranging from two to twelve. To convey the poem’s purpose, Owen uses an unconventional poem style and horrid, graphic images of the frontlines to convey the unbearable circumstances that many young soldiers went through in World War I. Not only did these men have to partake in such painful duties, but these duties contrasted with the view of the war made by the populace of the mainland country. Many of these people are pro-war and would never see the battlefield themselves. Owen’s use of word choice, imagery, metaphors, exaggeration, and the contrast between the young, war-deteriorated soldiers and populace’s favorable view of war creates Owen’s own unfavorable view of the war to readers.

In the book All Quiet on the Western Front, Alliteration is used to connect the ideas together into a central theme of how the protagonists lives’ could’ve been if they weren’t in the war. Alliteration was used when the protagonist is on sentry duty at night on the front lines and he “stand[s] there and wonder[s] whether, when [he] is twenty, [if he] shall experience the bewildering emotions of love ”(Remarque 119). This quote helps tie together the idea that he has not experience life as an adult since he has been in the war this entire time, he begins to not want to fight in the war any longer and wants to go home. The author uses this technique to create a rhyme scheme in the sentence and to connect this related ideas. (158

The poem, “In Flanders Fields” written by Canadian John McCrae remains one of the most important and memorable pieces of war

In the first stanza the pace is very slow and a painstaking rhythm. Owen decides to use long words to illustrates how painstaking and slow the war was. Owen describes how painful and miserable the trenches are by using; similes, alliteration, hyperbole and onomatopoeia this is a wide range of language use and fits in well with what is described in the first stanza.

In majority of Owen’s poem, he demonstrates the true image of war and the impact it has on the soldiers rather than masking it with the lies of pride

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The Situation of “the deceiver deceived” recurs throughout Defoe’s Moll Flanders. Consider the way that the novel explores this situation with reference either to the episode of Moll’s marriage to her third husband (the Virginian) – in particular, to the way that this marriage is entered into.