Distinctively Visual

Writers used imagery as a way to show how graphic and disturbing war can be. In the poem (Doc. D) the author describes how he would be “ killing women or even watching women get killed”. This is used to show the violent and disturbing actions many people have to do while at war. Another author describes how he saw (Doc. B) someone “ yelling out, stumbling, and floundering like a man on fire”. This shows how on a daily basis many soldiers saw events that would mentally scar them. In Document D the author describes how he would have kill men and keep shooting them to make sure they were dead. This is used to show how graphic the life of war was. The use of imagery is an effective way to show how disturbing the war is.

The distinctively visual is a prominent characteristic in which the composer shapes a unique visual perspective for the responder to interpret. Using a variety of techniques and languages, the composer is distinctively able to create vibrant and lively visualisations within their work. The poetry of Douglas Stewart, in particular ‘Lady feeding the cats’ and ‘Nesting time’ and the image of ‘’Firefighters at twin towers attack’’ photographed by Todd Maisel are particularly effective. Douglas’ poems uniquely portray ordinary people and outsiders at touching and meaningful moments, experiences and connection with nature that creates an image to the reader the relationship of man and nature and how nature can challenge

In evaluating the physical objects each soldier carried, the narrator provided insight into the mind state of the soldiers. It’s also plain in the text which provides this same insight. The men

Even though the soldiers join the war as naive youths, the war rapidly changes them and they develop into young men. Surrounded by death, the boys are bound to foresee the fragility of their own lives and are stripped of the carelessness and brazenness of youth. The dreadful horrors around the boys bound them to consider a world that does not accommodate to their childish and simplistic view. They want to only see a separation between what is right and what is wrong, they instead find moral doubt. Where they had wanted to see order and meaning, they only found senselessness and disorder. Where they wanted to find heroism, they only found the selfish instinct of self-preservation. These realizations destroyed the innocence of the boys, maturing and thrusting them into their manhood.

Through the soldiers’ experiences, the narrator shows only the dark side of human nature. Discuss.

Actions tested there ethical and moral values. After this point these soldiers have to cope with the cause and effect from their actions. Coping can cause mental illnesses, and addiction but also you can cope with these some things plus more things such as love, and mortality. This is the most important struggle that had to take care of for their survival. But why is this still relevant to today's society? Tim o’brien used many methods while writing this book to help the reader to understand the soldiers experiences and feelings throughout the war. These methods include imagery, repetition, hyperbole, metaphors, allusions, and many

Through the novel All Quiet on the Western Front, novelist Erich Maria Remarque provides a commentary on the dehumanizing tendencies of warfare. Remarque continuously references the soldiers at war losing all sense of humanity. The soldiers enter the war levelheaded, but upon reaching the front, their mentality changes drastically: “[they] march up, moody or good tempered soldiers – [they] reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals” (Remarque 56). This animal instinct is essential to their survival. When in warfare, the soldiers’ minds must adapt to the environment and begin to think of the enemy as objects rather than human beings. It is this defensive mechanism that allows the soldiers to save

Indeed, the soldiers are dehumanised to the point that they are considered property, “It certainly is not your leg! […]. That leg belongs to the U.S. government. It’s no different than a gear or a bed pan”. Yossarian is reduced to the equivalent of a “bedpan”, the lowest of the low, a humiliating comparison. Such an allusion to a vulgar object demonstrates the impersonality and callous inhumanity of war, where courage, bravery and humans themselves account for little. Yossarian here is illustrated as a mere production unit, a ‘worker’. Marxist critics argue that capitalism, which dominates US politics, turns peoples into things, it reifies them. In Marxist terms, such a capitalist mode of production generates a materialistic view of the world, in which ultimately all of us function as objects and become alienated from ourselves.

As each man carried their “emotional baggage,” it was as if their intangible items had “their own mass and specific gravity.” Here we see that emotion prevails and that it is so important that it symbolises physical weight. It demands attention. The formative tone of the narrator, making precise statements about the men continues when it is stated that they have a “fear of blushing,” while killing and dying because they were “embarrassed not to.” Here, machismo behaviour is prevalent as the soldiers attempt to keep the identify of exhilarating power, strength and masculinity. They don’t want to appear fragile, yet the psychological fear and cowardice was “barely restrained,” as the war continues within themselves, and not the

Poets frequently utilize vivid images to further depict the overall meaning of their works. The imagery in “& the War Was in Its Infancy Then,” by Maurice Emerson Decaul, conveys mental images in the reader’s mind that shows the physical damage of war with the addition of the emotional effect it has on a person. The reader can conclude the speaker is a soldier because the poem is written from a soldier’s point of view, someone who had to have been a first hand witness. The poem is about a man who is emotionally damaged due to war and has had to learn to cope with his surroundings. By use of imagery the reader gets a deeper sense of how the man felt during the war. Through the use of imagery, tone, and deeper meaning, Decaul shows us the

Through the killing of enemies to watching their helpless die in front of them, those events had made the soldiers lose their innocence and their childhood, The men are also depicted to be like “stone-age veterans”( 3.2) . Since the soldiers have seen bloodshed and suffering of enemy soldiers, the youthness of the soldiers have been

These colors draw the viewer s eyes to the figure, and with all the bloody bodies around seems to especially convey the ideas of good Vs. evil, or innocent Vs. impure. All of the opposing characters with guns are all painted in darker colors with black hoods, whereas the center man is adorned in the brightest colors which are very close in shade to the light shining in front of him.

Before a person can understand, analyze, or interpret a photograph, the image must first be viewed. This involves more than just the stimulus or environment in which the image is presented. When an image is examined, there are indirect and direct forces that play a role in its analysis. The actual image that the eyes visualize does not match up completely with what a person will perceive. What a person sees is a complex relationship between many variables including their past experiences, memories, and personalities (Zakia 64).There is typically a seamless connection between what a person sees, and what a person is looking to see (Zakia 64). This idea can be better explained in the variations of responses given when people look at a particular photograph. The different interpretations can be small or great depending on the audience. The variation is caused by the different past experiences and feelings within each individual.

If visual imagery and visual perception shared many of the same processes, then much of what is known to date about perception may be used and adapted to be able to understand the more internal and ambiguous process of visual imagery. The question is how much of mental imagery is actually a part of visual perception?