Futility

the results seem to pale in comparison. The graves of the dead serve as a monument to this grim reality; humanity’s efforts to combat the advance of human evil, nature, and death are in vain. Both Natasha Trethewey and Joseph Conrad examine the futility of the human struggle in

definitely changed our perceptions and feelings towards war. These perceptions and feelings are often portrayed in a form of poetry. Due the horrors of modern warfare, there is an increase in the poems that spoke of the tragedy and futility of war. A poem which demonstrates the futility and tragedy of war is “home-coming”. “Home-coming” is written by Bruce Dawe in 1968. It is an anti-war poem protesting against the Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War in 1960s. In “home-coming”, the continuous loss of

podcasts have different titles, they will be collectively named “Futility of Love” podcasts. This name has been chosen because not only was futility of love in the world the theme of the first podcast, but it seemed to be

In Trethewey’s “Native Guard,” graves symbolize of the futility of mankind’s efforts to conceal its evils, and of failure to combat the racist system put in place by white America. For years, Trethewey’s mother fought to protect her daughter from the hatred and prejudice in America. Her protest against the hatred of America was snuffed out by abusive partners and the nascent racism of America. In the poem “Graveyard Blues,”she describes the atmosphere of the graveyard as blues-y and dreary. She

in case his sister’s condition improved or worsened. When the sun peaked above the horizon, the air outside was tainted by the acrid stench of ash. Futility slowly stirred and tried to lift herself up off the table, which woke up both Stevenson and James. “Don’t move,” commanded James as he ran to grab a bottle of water, “take a drink.” Futility thankfully took the drink and finished it off in seconds. “What happened?” She asked as she turned from James to Stevenson. “You took a knock to the head

wrote about the futility, the suffering and the pity of war from his personal experience on the battlefields. He was horrified with the devastating futile waste of life, the “inhumanity of man” and the depth of its catastrophic effects on young men. In his poems ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Futility’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, he writes with intense focus on war as an extraordinary human experience. The poems also intentionally document other experiences: the horror of war in ‘Futility’; emotional,

chemical warfare and how gruesome it really was and it also gives you a sense of smell as it uses the word sniffed making you feel like you are inhaling the gas yourself proving effective imagery in his poems. Wilfred Owen likes to bring across the futility of his war within ‘the next war as well and he uses this to his advantage with the quote in “knowing that better men would come” and in this he is saying that more men would come to war as they get a message saying that war is all fun and games when

In Trethewey’s “Native Guard,” graves symbolize the futility of mankind’s efforts to conceal its evils and of failure to combat the racist system put in place by white America. For years, Trethewey’s mother fought to protect her daughter from the hatred and prejudice in America. Her protest against the hatred of America was snuffed out by abusive partners and by the nascent racism of America. In the poem “Graveyard Blues,”she describes the atmosphere of the graveyard as blues-y and dreary. She “wander[s]

Decorum Est (Dulce) are both brilliant examples of these themes. Both Futility and Strange Meeting explore the theme

immense panorama of futility and anarchy. Modernist writing became prominent after WWI when the lost generation emerged, the generation of men and women who came of age during WWI and became disillusioned by the vast numbers of deaths in the war and rejected many of the previous ideas of appropriate behavior,