War poems

War is a time of violence, protest, death and pain for many people around the world. With this conflict, a lot of poetry is written because poetry is one of the most common ways for people to put across their feelings about situations. War is one of these situations for which many people have very strong feelings. A common theme in war poetry is the transformation that war brings about in a person. Many poems reveal boys going into war and becoming young men after the experience. Another dominant

This poem is my favorite of the three poems we have studied because of the beautiful language and poetic techniques it employs, and because of how realistically it portrays war. The poem captures the horror of troops caught in the middle of a brutal and merciless war, and their desperation. In a mechanized war, attacks take place with frightening speed and intensity, where there is no place to run or hide, and any response is not made out of logic but of pure fear. This hasty and irrational way of

leaves a nation with a vein of guilt deep within the core of the country. War poetry immortalizes the death of these soldiers in an attempt to forget about the brutality of conflict and to remove the grief that comes from sending your nation’s sons and daughters into combat. War poetry immortalizes soldiers in an attempt to keep the nation moving forward, to gain closure, and to paint a heroic image of

The poem is about the return of our troops and the support we give them. In the poem they are talking about how it affects the soldiers and their families. They also talk about the public’s reaction and how they just don’t understand, because they haven’t been where they were. Higher ranked officials take advantage of the soldiers or young people going into war. The soldiers fight for peace and don’t get it in return. The return of our troops is a wonderful thing, think about it. How happy would

How is the theme of war portrayed through imagery in the poems Lament by Gillian Clarke and War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy? Lament is written by Welsh poet Gillian Clarke, which is an elegy where she laments the loss of lives due to the Gulf War in 1991. Through the use of imagery and figurative language, the theme of war is portrayed violently and unpleasantly. Similarly, in Carol Ann Duffy’s poem War Photographer, war is depicted through the description of developing photos that the photographer

In war poems, war is always condemned, dispraised and demonstrated as a futile and tragic event. In both poems, "War Photographer" by Duffy and "Exposure" by Owen, poets illustrate their suffering and acrimony of conditions of war. "War Photographer" is an inspiration of the friendship of the poet with a photographer of war. It is also an illustration of the brutality of war and the apathy of those who might see the photos in newspapers. Whereas, Exposure is a poem written by a solider who was honoured

ESSAY ON 3 WAR POEMS No man wants to go to war and no government wants war but there are many different circumstances that lead to the action of war. Those involved in war will have political and personal views towards it. The First World War was greeted with great enthusiasm and patriotism; however it was the war in which millions died compared to the wars after. In the past 200 years warfare has changed and with this change the ideas on war have changed too. Wilfred Owen, Rudyard Kipling

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

voices and opinions to protest war and its effects of their own experiences of the war. Stephen Crane worked as a journalist during the Spanish-American war and published the poem “War Is Kind” to show how people see the war, versus what the war was really like. Wilfred Owen wrote the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”, which means “It is sweet and right to die for your country”. Owen fought during World War 1, where he also passed away. Tim O’Brien served in the Vietnam War and wrote The Things They Carried

in society is often created in the chaos of wars, in which it leads to abuse in power and loss of identity in individuals. Through the anti-war poem Homecoming by Dawe, responders have discovered and gained an insight on the power of war, which has impacted and led to the degradation of the ‘homecoming’ soldiers in ‘they’re…them’, as an anaphora illustrates the bitter attitude of the persona, merging and exhibiting Dawe’s dismissive perspective of war. The dominance of conflicts has impacted on the