"War Photographer" by Carol Ann Duffy and "The War Drags On" by Donovan are two poems that are quiet similar and Different at the same time.They both have similarities and Differences in the focus of the poem,the speaker and his role,the literary devices,and the main purpose and message of the poet in the poem.Those Similarities and differences can be found in the poem directly and indirectly meaning that we can find obvious similarities or differences between them and at the same time we can need time to analyze things in the poem to find those similarities and differences. Firstly, there are differences and similarities in the main focus of the poem and what's it about generally.In War photographer,The main focus of the poem is mainly …show more content…
A similie is used when the poet says "The only light is red and softly glows,as though this were a church..."(3-4).Metaphors are also used, examples for them are "spools of sufferring"(2),"ordered rows"(2),"The only light is red and softly glows"(3-4),"All flesh is grass."(6),"running children in a nightmare heat."(12),and "blood stained into foreign dust."(18)Contradiction is also used for example when the poet says"black-and-white"(19).Imagery is used when the poet says "a half-formed ghost"(15),"blood stained"(18),the photographer is now in a church imagining that he's praying for the dead people.Synecdoche is another literary device used when the poet says "All flesh is grass"(6) in which the flesh is representing humans.Oxymoron device is used for example,"ordinary pain"(10) because pain can never be ordinary.On the other hand,in The War Drags On,personification is used for example when the poet says "And the guns they grew louder"(8),and"they made dust out of bones"(8).Alliteration is also used for example "blood and bones"(6),"without hope and without homes"(7),"guns they grew"(8),"scream and shoutin'..." (18)Examples of imagery used are "sea of blood and bones"(6),"they
Sheers wrote ‘Mametz Wood’, reflecting on the death and remains of solders in World War One contrasted to Hughes who wrote’ Bayonet Charge’ after war but set it during war, presenting the uncertainty of the soldiers. Having the two poems set in different times, contrasts how World War 1 is presented both during and after.
You get the feeling that she has nobody to talk to, that she only knew
The most obvious difference is the fact that one shows the perspective of a woman while the other tells a story from a man's perspective. The letter is written by a guy in the army to his wife and kids. He talks more about how he loves the Country so much that he is willing to die for it. The major does not really mind the fact that he is about to die and leave his family behind. Instead he tells his wife and kids to stay strong and that he will always be there for them. In contrast, the poem talks about how the women values her husband’s love and how he is such an idol. She would put her husband before anything and anyone. Just by reading the poem people are able to tell how much this women respects and loves her husband.Although they both love their families, one is willing to give up his life and abandon them.
How many poems have you read that are very similar but, different in many ways? In the poems, “Ode to enchanted Light” and “Sleeping in the Forest,” The poets Pablo Neruda and Mary Oliver both talk about an experience in nature using figurative language and form and structure. However, there are many differences and similarities between the two poems.
The text that will be analyzed is a short story called The Secret Lion by Alberto Rios. This text is jam packed full of figurative language such as symbolism and personification. The story is a memory from the author himself about when he was growing up as a kid in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He has just reached junior high and he is in the early stages of becoming an adult. He does not like the fact that he is growing up and he wants to stay as a kid.
Orr uses imagery to show the reader that events can mentally scar one’s memory, in which a person vividly remembers that moment perfectly. To do this Orr uses lots of descriptive words and phrases that bring the reader to visualize the scene of the poem. An example is, "the dark stain already seeping across his parka hood"(2). The speaker has this image implanted in his mind, because it is the first thing that he sees right after he has shot his brother. As one reads this line, they can picture the image of blood seeping through the material of the hood in their mind, making them feel as if they are standing there with him. In addition, Orr uses the imagery of death throughout the poem. By writing, “In the bowl, among the vegetable chunks / pale shapes of the alphabet bobbed at random or lay in the shallow spoon” (15-17). The speaker is visualizing the pale deceased
The poems I have chosen to compare in this essay are Wilfred Owen's “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and Jessie Pope's “Who's For The Game?”. The two poems I have chosen to compare are both about the first world war. Yet the two poems have very different opinions on the Great War. My first poem, Dulce et decorum, is against the war and the injustice of it all. It is narrated by one of the soldiers who is fighting in the Great War and having to face the horrors of war. On the contrary my second poem, Who's for the game, is a recruitment poem.
Some poems are similar. Some are different. Some, however, can have aspects that are both similar and different. In the poems “O Captain, My Captain” and “Shiloh: A Requiem” many literary aspects are used. Some of these include repetition, imagery, extended metaphors, and personification. Although the poems “O Captain, My Captain” and “Shiloh: A Requiem” have very different literary elements, they have some in common as well.
Owen uses Imagery as another method to convey the brutality of war and also as a means of contrast to show his life before and after. In the third stanza he creates a picture of blood being poured away; “poured it down shell-holes till the veins ran dry” and he uses metaphorical language to emphasis the point that he nearly bled to death as you cannot literally pour the blood out of your veins.
Similes are a small part of the poem, but give larger meaning behind each verse in which it was used. In “Facing It”, there are few verses that use simile, but those verses have important meaning. The Vietnam Memorial has 58, 022 names on the black surface, and the speaker says, “I go down the 58, 022 names,/ half-expecting to find/ my own in letters like smoke.” (14-16) Line 16 uses simile to describe the letters as being smoke. The white on black of the memorial gives a fog or smoke-like appearance when quickly scanning over names. All those names were of someone who died, and they become a blur. “My clouded reflection eyes me/ like a bird of prey…” (6-7) is used to describe how the speaker’s reflection is staring back at him. The names are on the wall, and as he stands there, he most likely feels very overwhelmed. His own reflection stares him down. His reflection and expectation of finding his own name among those lost
In this essay I will be comparing the two poems, ‘The Man He Killed’ by Thomas Hardy and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen. ‘The Man He Killed’ is about a man who was in the war and is thinking about his memories in the war. The main part of his experience in the war that he is reminiscing is the killing that he committed and the majority of the poem is focused on that. Thomas Hardy did not go to war himself but it could be thought that he got the idea from a friends experience in the war. The poem is based on the Boer War. The message of the poem is that he was most probably very similar to the man he killed, as in not really knowing what they’re fighting for and why they’re there. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ is about someone who is
An example of his use of similes is “...and his eyes have all the seeming, of a demon's that is dreaming…”.
men and he mentions names and, as he knows his men so well, he can
Compare and contrast “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Charge Of The Light Brigade”. What images of war do these two poems convey?
War has always been an unfortunate part of our society and civilization. War will sadly and undoubtedly be with us as long as we exist. However, the portrayal of war for many centuries gave a sense of patriotism and romanticism. Then the invention of the camera changed how humanity perceived war in the late to mid 19th century. And all of a sudden, images of war became of shear violence and destruction. The violence in these images would play a significant part in the social and political standpoints of war in our nation.