The Unknown Soldier Poem Analysis

This is a very lyrical poem. The speaker's emotions and intentions are made very clear in very inconspicuous ways. The subtle repetition of certain words and images give the poem a very distinct tone. For example, the repetition of the words

Imagine someone dying from a sickness. They know that they are on their last leg. They can either fight to stay alive, or they can give up hope and pass away. People control their own fate. Controlling their own fate means that they decide when it is time for them to die, and don’t just lay down and accept death. This idea can be seen in in many pieces of text including the following poems. “Invictus” by William Ernest Henley and “Do not go gentle into that good night” by Dylan Thomas. Both authors express the theme of people control their own fate.

In the first stanza William Stafford stops realization. He describes a motorcycle below a bridge. The cycle is abandoned, “engine running as it lay on its side, ticking over slowly in the high grass.” To begin his poem Stafford gives

The last few lines in the poem are sentience that have been chopped up into different lines, to help

The poem War Photographer narrates the hardships and horrific events, which a war photographer must face and capture, in a third-person’s perspective. It brings to awareness how being surrounded by media daily has de-sensitized humans and how apathetic and uncaring the rest of the world, who is not directly affected by the war, is. This poem indicates themes of the effects of war, grief, and third-world countries. The poem War Photographer opens in the tranquil setting of the photographer's darkroom or developing room.

The tone of this poem is established by the way the lines seem flat and void of emotion. The

Randall Jarrell put much thought into his poem, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, but more specifically into the tone. Tone is the attitude an author has towards his or her subject and it has the power to be bland, or have a true impact on the literary work being presented. Jarrell effectively used imagery and diction to create the attitude he wanted his readers to conclude in their own way.

The setting of the poem is in the kitchen. In this case the speaker is saying

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. A quote by Dwight D. Eisenhower. This quote illustrates the stupidity of war and the way to defeat stupidity is to question the unknown which is also shown in the book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and the poem Beat! Beat! Drums! By Walt Whitman. All Quiet on the Western Front and Beat! Beat! Drums! Have a common theme of the need for everyone to question the motives of war.

There is also a buried rhyme in the last two words in each of the two lines, although, on first hearing the poem the way it was intended to be read (enjambment), I didn?t notice the rhyme.

Some may look like fishermen, fishers of men, murderers, collectors, carpenters, prostitutes, kings, queens, bankers, commoners, doctors, lawyers, police, etc. Armor created in the heat of hell will withstand all so there must be an amazing plan.

✔The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane starts off by talking about the soldiers and how they are well prepared and are going into battle with full force. In line 3 he says “ The men at the head butted mules with their musket stocks. They prodded teamsters indifferent to all howls. The men forced their way through parts of the dene mass by strength.” Showing how well prepared they were mentally and physically going into battle. The soldier himself didn’t feel the same way other soldiers had. Showing how scared the main character was, when the rest of the characters were brave and ready to fight.In the poem they start to talk about how the soldiers camouflaged themselves and how long they waited for the enemy to appear. In line 1 Yusef Komunyakaa says that “ We tied branches to our helmets. We painted our faces & rifles with mud from a riverbank.” He then had said in the poem how they were mentally very patient in the war waiting for their enemy to come. Showing a difference between the characters that in the poem the main characters were brave and ready to fight, while the character in the novel excerpt had a different personality and was very scared and had no courage to go to war. ✔The theme of both of the novel except and the poem are the same. In the “ The Red Badge of Courage” shows how a character named Henry badger that runs away from the war with fear, realizing that he has to go back or otherwise he would carry a guilt that he wasn't courageous and masculine

Throughout the poem, the author Sir Philp Sidney uses alliteration. Alliteration means “when the first sound in words repeat”. There are two combination of those which are in lines 1-8. The first combination is snare, care, ware, and prepare. The second combination is thought, wrought, brought, and bought. Also they use the pattern

has lots of tone. Tone is the attitude of a poem but not only just the attitude but also the

Time waits for no man. As a human race, we understand that the minute we come into this world our clock of life begins to tick. Among all the species on Earth, humans are the only ones that truly understand the passage of time. Due to this understanding, we also understand that our time will eventually run out. How do we know when we have grown old and our time is soon spent? When we are young we picture high school as being older or better yet, old. But truly when high school does come than college is old. As you grow older than old seems farther away. Wystan Auden and E. E. Cummings were poets that wrote The Unknown Citizen, old age sticks, and anyone lived in a pretty how town, one message that all three of these poems brought was getting old is not fun.