Men Should Weep

the red and gold, These men were born to drill and die” (Crane). Even though this is not necessarily talking about any war today’s soldiers do not know if they are gonna die and they are honored for their bravery and sacrifice. Also in “War is Kind”, “Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind, Because your lover threw wild hands toward the sky And the affrighted steed ran on alone, Do not weep. War is kind” (Crane). At this part of the poem, it is trying to say that these men are leaving their wives

During the late 1800s, a woman’s role in the family shifted to a more undervalued role due to an expanding marketplace. What was once ran equally by both men and women, sustaining a household became less of a hassle as many of the tasks, such as preparing textiles and canning food, were readily available in the market place. A woman’s role shifted from “productive” to “reproductive” where she was to become a domestic servant and concentrate on preparing a comforting, safe, and warm home environment

The Harsh Satire of “War is Kind” The act of war is a brutal, harsh reality that devastates the future of all men. Stephen Crane’s “War is Kind” is a poem written in a witty, blunt perspective to depict the pointless destruction that derives from war and man-on-man violence. The poem’s intentions at first glance are an attempt to defend the logic of war with the glory of battle, yet the events depicted in each stanza show just how false this glory actually is and the terror of those who suffer in

Throughout sonnet 30 Shakespeare speaks of mourning the death of friends. This thought of his friends gone torture him and make him very depressed. In the sonnet it says “For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night, and weep afresh love’s long since cancelled woe, and moan th’ expense of many a vanished sight” ( 6-8). The speaker looks at death as a datless night allowing the reader to understand that the speaker will never again get to see his beloved friends and this

by a lot of things. We can be affected by our friends, family, love, but the worst things to be affected by, are fear and death. Elie Wiesel, who experienced the Holocaust at age 15, was influenced by a lot of bad things. He saw things that no one should ever have to see in their lives. In the book, “Night” he talks about what happened to him at the Holocaust and tells us how he could not recognize himself afterwards. Before Elie and his family was taken by the Nazis, he was very religious and curious

The second is the plain content of the statement and the fact that it is followed by “Do not weep. War is kind” (15-16). This is now the second time that the reader has come across this statement and because of this, the reader begins to recognize that the speaker is indeed trying to be ironic in the work. The reader notices that the speaker in

horrors of 1930’s Germany. During these difficult times, Hitler and all of his followers used the punishments put on them after World War Two as an excuse to disobey the laws set on them and began to raise and incredibly powerful military made up of men and women, young and old, and did whatever

visiting, that she should be listening to him instead of being distracted with her work. He also taught Mary several things, whom was the sister of Martha. During that time period women were not allowed to be educated and were confined in their homes. Luke portrays Jesus as a man who valued women and their faith to him. In a century where women were minimized, Luke didn’t fail to mention the women followers and what Jesus told them. ““Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves

rations would do him better than his father, he felt like leaving him behind. “In this place there is no such thing as a father, brother, friend. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father… In fact you should be getting his rations…He was right, I thought, deep down, not daring to admit to myself” (Night, 111). Because of the situation day by day his father continued to get even sicker, Elie was only hurting himself by giving his father his rations as

and social arrangement. Chimney Sweeper from Song of Innocence is an example by noticing that there is a young work force, where these children need to be small in order to fit down the chimney and are sold by their families. There crying of “weep, weep” is a sound device of romantic irony, Song of Experience, The Chimney Sweeper also talks about the “notes of woe”. Along with social class of these little children working this dangerous job in order to sustain some sort of income since they were