The Sorrow of War Essay

Poetry for centuries has been a gateway for incognito artists to display their sorrow and jubilance. As for the poet Gwendolyn Brooks, her poetry was majority sorrow; the poem “Sonnet-ballad”, written in 1949, depicts a young woman's lover going off to war and his original psyche never returning home after the war. The male lover in the poem felt obligated to serve his country; the man in the poem didn’t break free of the social constructs at the time and felt as if he had no free will. Gwendolyn

ending was not as predictable as people may think because of the beginning. At the beginning it all started off with the setting beginning at war. Gentleman having a little chat. I believe when you are at war having a little chat can help get your mind off of what is going on at hand. Edmour became the topic of this conversation. It’s funny how even at war people choose to make fun of those who may have something with, or on them that is out of the ordinary. Edmour had a locket around his neck.

World War Two, a time of gore, the type of war, humanity can’t stand or bear to imagine! This was a time where six million Jews were sent to their deaths. The war, known as the Holocaust, lasted from 1939-1945. Yet, the question asked by all, how does the spirit triumph? Our spirit’s triumph by these “big things”, known as love, laughter, and nature. Love is in the air, and love should be everywhere. We may sometimes express it in the funniest ways. In the book Yellow Star, a little girl named

literature a repetitive theme is the classic war. Known as love against responsibilities. A character like the Weaving Maiden, conflicts with her duties and tasks because of love. The author, Grace James captivates the reader by using tone, imagery and symbols throughout her short story. “Sorrow, age-long sorrow, shall come upon the Weaving Maiden when she leaves her loom.” This was the first example of tone used in the short story. The word sorrow portrays what the Weaving Maiden was feeling

The root causes of Krebs’ alienation is present in the story when he returns home with no excitement, no parties, no talks of war or even a warm welcome. The lack of attention for his sacrifice creates a liar out of Krebs, and even though he hates it, he cannot prevent himself from lying due to the positive reinforcement he received amongst his peers from his lies. Why should he tell the truth? No one he closely associated with was there with him in Germany. He simply could not come home with a boring

Kurt Vonnegut, one of the most successful and “socially engaged” writers of the twentieth century, dedicated a quarter century to the examination of one of the most devastating blows to humanity in history, World War Two (Bloom). The implications of determinism strike deep into the pride of man, thus the prospect of being nothing but debris floating through time will quickly destroy any delusions of grandeur. In Slaughterhouse Five, the narrative’s non-linear component reveals the insignificance

I experienced a major shift in “remote attachments” in my lifetime as well. There was a war between South Korea and North Korea from 1950 to 1953. My grandfather was a student soldier at that time. Even though he did not know how to use a gun, he had to be in the battle. When he first shoot and saw his bullet embedded in one of North Korean soldier’s head, he said that he felt guilty and sorrow. He did not even have time to reflect and heal himself because the bullets were in everywhere.

February 2011 How Can Love Never Fail? Karen Van Der Zee “A Secret Sorrow uses, Characterization, Tone and Irony to show that love is powerful and will heal any hurt. Anyone can say that what you hope for always doesn’t come to past, and then you may lose hope of it ever happening. It is possible to give up and live in despair or even defeat. This is very similar to Karen Van Der Zee, the writer of “A Secret Sorrow portrays in her story. Karen uses the characterization, tone, and irony to

throughout the story. Boa Ninh helps the reader to become aware and understand war as being all conquering by comparing it to love. Kien faced many hardships after war, being one out of ten to survive the Vietnam War, he realized that he should “expose the reality” by writing his own biography. He struggles with both the memories of the war and also his trauma post-war. He says that he is required to write about the war as he is the only survivor of the battalion. He writes to get rid of his tormenting

World War One began on July twenty-eighth 1914 and ended on November eleventh 1918; all of the injured and damaged people along with any soldiers who fought were considered the "lost generation" after World War One. Gertrude Stein (who was Ernest Hemingway's mentor) was the one who first came up with the term "the lost generation". “You are all a lost generation." (Gertrude Stein pg. 2 book one) he says this because all of the people who were in World War One were part of the lost generation, and