... in literature, some of the world's greatest works are about armies and battles. The numerous conflicts of the war and peace produced writers who sometimes chose to concentrate their writing on the horrifying effects and worthlessness of war. These writers wrote about the cruelty of war and they reveal the dark truth about it. They wrote a good piece of literature which really showed the peoples feelings during this ... time. The wars affected people and their everyday lives because many of their loved ones were ... irony to demonstrate that death is one of life's most challenging obsta...

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... recognizable; it is Findley's effective use of the jargon of war that heighten the realistic image of war he portrays. Owen has an appropriate question in the tenth line of his poem; "What are we doing here?" but he needs to expand on this idea. The following stanza could have demonstrated the mental anguish the soldier felt, and then addressed the treacherous weather condition. Each author has his ... own unique style for depicting the psychological affects war has on man, but Findley's description ... . Description is quite vivid in Owen's poem, and overall there is a good sense of rh...

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... yet very few people could absorb it, or even accept it ever happened. Most people in Britain welcomed the start of the war. The feelings of excitement, patriotism, and a sense of duty and the romantic ideas of what war would be like persuaded many to join. People were constantly fed propaganda about what ... a poem based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". It is a dream of the young, helpless soldier Owen watches suffocate and die during a sudden attack after the men were retreating: "Flound"ring like a man in fire or lime I saw him drowning". What ...

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... deaths and Shakespeare seems to be saying that it is in the end wasteful and tragic that mindless conflict can do such damage. In the historical poems, 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' we are given a good idea of how two writers can have different opinions about war ... theme which is constant throughout is one of futility. Wherever in Literature we find conflict, we will almost definitely find futility. In 'The Charge of the Light Brigade' the six hundred know they if they go into battle they will probably not return, so it seems an absurd idea tha...

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... lines, he can also paint the picture of the after effects of the war. In "Disabled", the reader develops the image of detachment from society when a soldier returns from the war injured. Due to the ellipses, the poem is broken up into sections and the reader is able to get an account of the soldier's life before and after the war. In the first section we are introduced to the soldier and we are given a very ... as "a leap of purple [which] spurted from his thigh (20)" (92). This description is very helpful in understanding how the soldier is feeling. Owen continues the poem by giving acc...

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... no boots at all. Frostbite. Gangrene. Amputate. All possible words they might hear. If they live long enough to find out. Also, the fact that the gassed man was "flung" into the wagon reveals the urgency and responsibility that accompanies fighting: there is no time for mourning or good-byes. The only thing they can do is toss him into a wagon to be hauled off with ... use words, correct and creative use of punctuation can create a strong visual affect on the page. (www.writerswrite.com) At the beginning of the second stanza, the first two words are typed: "Gas! GAS!- (Owen. 737-738) Th...

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... character. It was there that he met Siegfried Sassoon, who had been put into psychiatric care for writing poems that the authorities thought put the war into a negative light. It was Sassoon who encouraged Owen to become a poet, and they became good friends. The way Owen writes is very much sane and some would say he was quite an influential character. So how does ... situation and know they have to think fast to help themselves. The rest of this line and the line proceeding it outline the men's rush to put on the masks, and their clumsiness in their haste. The third line of this stanza...

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... Honourable To Die For Ones Country. If someone is reading the poem for the first time and learns of the English meaning of the title before reading the poem they may feel it is a poem that represents the army in a good way. All the things that they are carrying weigh down the soldiers, perhaps they are even weighed down by the expectation of their country. According to Owen " Till on ... great. Now he has no leg. He wonders why he joined the army. He tries to impress people as they told him he would do well in the army. One reason he signed up was because his dear Meg would be pleased. ...

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