Summary Of The Hurt Locker

The overall message in this poem is a drill sergeant educating young soldiers and preparing them for the harsh reality of war. He is not playing ‘Mr. nice guy’, he is being tough and strict to give the soldiers no easy way out.

perfectly depicts how war can invade a country and the lives of those who inhabit it. It also criticizes the Civil War without stating or directly referring to it at any time. The poem is composed of three stanzas and twenty one verses. The meter and the rhyme are free, but the poem still possesses a certain rhythm- linked to the choice of words- that resemble the sounds of the drums.

While looking up different opinions on the poem, I saw a view I never thought about. Their outlook on the poem was strongly focused on the poem being about a special forces sniper. They compared the weather elements to those a sniper would go through while waiting for their target.

Like many others soldiers the song writer Lachlan Irvine suffered PTSD being a major reason for writing these poems so people understand what he went through. The meaning of this poem is set upon how bad Vietnam war was like and more focusing on the lesser known parts that happened. The rhetorical questions throughout this poem created great emotional affect upon the audience making them think hard about all these different events. The language used with these questioned is very strong to create lasting effects being extremely upfront one used to

In the second stanza the distinctive experience of power is present. The use of the technique of imagery and emotive words “to pluck them from the shallows and bury them in burrows’ tells us that the soldiers were strong, loyal and had enough power within a degree to assist fellow soldiers. The use of personification to create sound “sob and clubbing of the gunfire” This leads the audience to understand what the soldiers were up against without even directly saying it. The imagery visually shows the scene in their

Growing up, many young boys idolized the war heroes in movies such as Saving Private Ryan and American Sniper. However, in the poem "Tunnels," Yusef Komunyakaa portrays the theme of the true fear and lack of purpose experienced by the American soldiers who fought in the Vietnam War. This was done by showing the reader that any mistake could easily result in the death of a soldier. Through his use of poetic form and structure, figurative language, and diction Komunyakaa is able to effectively convey his theme.

When soldiers come back from war they are incapable of reconnecting with their families and they are haunted by the memories. In Mark Mueller’s, “Military suicides: Arm Sgt. Coleman Bean’s downward spiral ends with gunfire,” Bean has a hard time living his life after. This idea is also reflected, by “Trouble on the Home Front,” as it describes the life of soldiers and how they have difficulty adjusting back into their normal lives. The loss of innocence is represented by Tim O’Brien’s “How to Tell a True War Story,” by the baby buffalo and its death symbolizing the death of innocence. Another idea that connects to innocence is the loss of protection and security which is in “Facing It” by Komunyakaa. Death is also seen in, the poem by Owen “Dulce et decorum est,” which describes his dying friend and his inability to save him. Another text that points out the mentally injured brain of a soldier is "Many Veterans Struggle to Heal from Moral Injuries” by Silver. The soldiers that go through the horrifying experiences at war suffer with disorders like the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder that psychological injures them and causes them to think of war. This eventually leads them to choose isolation as a way to live.

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).

a) I really liked this poem; I thought it was very vivid and memorable. It made me feel angry and sad for the soldiers that died and for the suffering of the other soldiers, their injuries, their trauma and the conditions they had to endure. My daughter also read this poem and it affected her in a similar way; it made her feel sad, angry and ashamed for the things that happened. (71)

A War Within Not every memory is happy. Not every memory beckons to be relived over and over again. Some are too painful and too confining. In Yusef Komunyakaa’s poem “Facing It,” the narrator is faced with just that--a difficult memory, still clinging to his mind. In the poem, when the narrator visits the Vietnam War Memorial, he is faced with a choice either to accept the memories as part of who he is and who he has become and move on, or to simply let the past consume him.

As he maneuvers through he thinks not only of his fate, but also of how, “it should protect me, and especially as Death himself lies in it too7.” The brave soldier realized death could come at any moment, and it is practically lying right next to him. The young troop has become aware and vulnerable to death, just like the soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iran. Because soldiers witness the physical traumas of other man or themselves their lives are never the same at home. The mentally struggling soldiers often rub off on their family, affecting them as a whole.

Illumination Rounds offers the perfect template to teach my CO about poetry. With its cache of poetic devices such as imagery, hyperbole, conflict, and symbols, Brian Turner attempts to portray a veteran’s experience after coming home from deployment. In especially memorable moments throughout the poem, the poetic devices’ relation to the content of the poem forms embodied meaning and brings light to the 21st century veterans’ war experiences to show the long lasting effect of post-traumatic stress disorder caused by the Iraqi War.

causes the poem to flow, and thus lightens up the dark and serious issue of war. The lines "But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place." are easy to read; however, their meaning is extremely

Although, most people are against their locker being searched at school, some people think it’s a marvelous idea. The largest amount of students and people thinks it is a bad idea because it's violating their personal space and their privacy. It could also lead to potentially stopping a crime of happening by finding a gun or drugs.

‘Harbingers’ by Curt Bennett is a poem written in 2014 for the Normandy landings anniversary of pure genius that confronts the audience about the horrifying truth and the brutality of war. Bennett’s ten stanza poem looks at all aspects of war; the fighting and death, the feelings and emotions and the political involvement. Throughout the third person narrative Bennett uses personification, alliteration and assonance to make the underlying messages truly hit tome. Curt Bennett writes about a lot of themes in this poem, but mainly the surviving veterans returning to say their last goodbye to the friends and family that paid the ultimate sacrifice, for what Bennett describes as a necessary evil of Mankind’s political process. Bennett also uses smaller key themes to create underlying messages and make an overall story.