The Different Aspects of Conflict in a Selection of Four War Poems

Literature and poetry are a reflection of society. The words are reflected in numerous feelings that we can almost touch and can be deeply felt in its reach. Most poets expressed their perception and emotion through their writings. Unfortunately the art and poetry describes one of the worst things that human can do to one another. The legalized murder called "war." Hence, this type of self-reflection called "poetry" has help create new fundamental ideas and values towards our society. In this essay, I will discuss the issue of the "War Poetry" during the "Great War" along with comparing and contrasting two talented renowned poets; Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).

Compare how poets present the effects of conflict in ‘Belfast Confetti’ and one other poem from Conflict.

The Slopes Of War, by N.A Perez is a historical fiction book. There were lots of people who got damaged emotionally and physically in war, the slopes of war shows examples of how they got hurt.

The Soldier was written at the beginning of World War One before anyone had a chance to experience the atrocity of a world war. The sonnet portrays a romanticised view of the positives of war for his home

You get the feeling that she has nobody to talk to, that she only knew

Disparity of power in society is often created in the chaos of wars, in which it leads to abuse in power and loss of identity in individuals. Through the anti-war poem Homecoming by Dawe, responders have discovered and gained an insight on the power of war, which has impacted and led to the degradation of the ‘homecoming’ soldiers in ‘they’re…them’, as an anaphora illustrates the bitter attitude of the persona, merging and exhibiting Dawe’s dismissive perspective of war. The dominance of conflicts has impacted on the soldiers the most as it is denoted in the free verse lines, reflecting the unstructured senseless tragedy of war that stimulated their powerlessness. On the same hand, Dawe continues with his critical view of militarism in confronting

The soldiers were forced to endure the burden of war that affected them emotionally and mentally. The Things they carried by Tim O'Brien was about soldiers who were impacted to hold the burden of the vietnam war and brought things emotionally and physically to the front lines which affected their mentality. Tim O’Brien used many literary techniques in this book but the ones that stood out to me were listings and point of view he used these literary techniques very often. Tim O’Brien used listing to explain why the soldiers carried a variety of certain things and how all of them mostly have the same main things to survive but other than that they have unique things that relate to the soldiers for example a quote from chapter

Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.

I do not think that KV is telling us in this novel what it could be different.As I remember in the first chapter KV implies that there is nothing intelligent to mention about the massacre. The novel ending suggests that bird-talk plays a relevant role during the whole story because it is the only subject throughout the whole story that talks about war. By doing this, KV tries to make sense as anyone’s talk about war. Vonnegut maintains the silence about war on purpose and leaves it after the massacre. This way readers can have the feeling that the majority of characters do not care about war and massacre, except the bird. He implies that this subject is meaningless for people but ironically important for the bird. It is like if animals

Just by reading the title, we know that this poem is about World War II. The first stanza talks about high school kids “training for war.” Hall is comparing a school sport to fighting in the war which, to me, is a bit of an exaggeration. You are not very likely to get badly hurt playing a sport and, if you do, you can usually come back from it fairly well. In war, it is extremely easy to become injured, and most war injuries can cause you to lose your life. We see an example of this in Stanza II when Dom dies in battle. During WWII, the military drafted young men to fight in the war. Dom was just a kid, sent off to fight in the war, and died not even a year after being one of the high schoolers playing sports. His life had barely started before

The Darwin’s theory of “natural selection rather than of evolution” has a great influence on the society back and now. The most destructive significant impact thinking about natural selection is probably the ideas of Social Darwinian. It is the idea survival of fittest and selection on a national level. Here is an example easily explaining the natural conflict between two nations. “Just a struggle for existence in the plant and the animal world always centers about a matter of space, so the conflicts of nations are in great part only struggles for territory.”(Stoddart 694) Stoddart is applying Darwin’s theory to human society where territory can be understood as land, opportunity, and natural resources.

The poem by Olivia Wrenn revises the idea of that of “Turf War”, which is an empty beauty. But a beauty that will remain because it is fake. An imposter of real grass. The analysis then explains that this is society's fault that has globally poisoned the minds of many human beings. While the poem, than explains the cloned aspects of everything about “Turf War”, while the analysis describes imprint's. The poem is almost talking about a Utopian society when it interprets sameness. The equality of all things. Such as the perfectly symmetrical blades of grass and picket fences. Also, the poem unravels the idea of reality of all things. The reality of sameness, the reality of beauty, and the reality of the American Dream. While the analysis barely

From the beginning it can be noticed that the poem has a quite symmetrical structure: it starts with the presentation of the war and of martial values, then, it makes you

War is controversial, unfortunate, and certainly misunderstood; it is a transforming agent, a catalyst for change. Nonetheless, many people focus on war's negative consequences, while positive effects are downplayed. War is a necessary evil in the sense that it stabilizes population, encourages technological advances, and has a very high economic value. Without war, the overpopulation of the human race is inevitable. It is this reason that war is a useful tool by not only Mother Nature, but also humans themselves to institute population control.

When faced with the countless problems of war including death, disease, sorrow, and loss, soldiers develop and intense bond between one another as they seek support in one another. A brotherhood is formed among these soldiers who rely on one another for protection and companionship amid a time in their lives where they are faced with the constant threat of death and violence everyday of their lives. But what happens to them after the war? In After the War, poet brings awareness to how the war-torn soldier attempts to reestablish their self in a society they have been isolated from for so many years through use of free verse and repetitive phrases, which further reinforces the theme throughout the poem.