Michael Kamber's picture, depicts a mass graveyard that was found in Iraq during the time of the invasion. The photo essentially shows the Iraqis in their most basic form: as humans awaiting burial. The picture, inherently humanizes the typically dehumanized people of Iraq, because in the end of the day, we all go to the grave. This is one concept, both Kamber and Turner agree on. Turner’s poem, What every soldier should know, initially insinuates that the so-called barbaric Iraqis, are essentially, dehumanized and labeled as deplorable. However, in the end, this is a poem about constant tension of war because you need to live by the rules of the enemy, but at the same time, you cannot stray from your own objective as the enemy cannot stray …show more content…
In the tenth line, Turner faces confusion as he has to decide whether or not an Iraqi approaching him saying “Inshallah” is a threat: “inshallah means Allah be willing. Listen well when it is spoken.”This line tells us that Turner, as an infantry soldier had understood that “Inshallah”, is not necessarily a bad omen, but that it all depends on the context and intentions of the person saying it. Inshallah, traditionally has positive connotation surrounding it, as it really only means “if God is willing”, and that line can be used in our daily life in the most simple of matters. Although in the war, inshallah is being used as a war symbol, as a cry to God, to in some way justify their cause and aid them. Turner talks about how he had been thrown in that position when he was faced with an Iraqi militant: “Men wearing vests rigged with explosives walk up, raise their hands and say inshallah.” This line addresses the earlier line regarding the careful listening that ought to take place when the word inshallah is used. Turner is trying to get us to understand the sense of chaos and distrust that he had to go through every day as a soldier of war overseas. The two lines exist to emphasise that you cannot stray from your own objective as the enemy cannot stray from theirs. No one can be trusted in times of war because everyone has their own assignment: to be loyal to their
Brian Turner's "The Hurt Locker" captures his personal and painful experiences during his time spent in war and furthermore, express the tragic events he witnessed. Brian Turner's poem is miraculously able to gather multiple first hand accounts of tragic, gory, and devastating moments inside a war zone and project them on to a piece of paper for all to read. He allows the audience of his work to partially understand what hell he himself and all combat veterans have endured. Although heartbreaking, it is a privilege to be taken inside "The Hurt Locker" of a man who saw too many things that should not ever be witnessed by anybody. Turner's words bring to life what many have buried deep inside them which subsequently is one of the major underlying problems facing combat veterans today. Reading this poem, I could not help but wonder what the long term effects of war are on a human being, if it is worth the pain, and how does a combat veteran function properly in a society that is unfamiliar with their experiences?
The poem ‘Weapons Training’ is written in a monologue style, and is in the viewpoint of one person. The persona in the poem is the drill sergeant. This poem is referring to a drill sergeant yelling at a group of untrained soldiers, as he teaches them on how to use their weapons. He uses a negative tone towards the young soldiers, using language that insults them in the aim to toughen them up. The language the drill sergeant uses is offensive and racist. He furthermore tries to get the soldiers to discover ‘hate’, so they can learn to dislike the enemies and kill ‘the enemies’. He does not portray a charming figure. However, he relishes in the brutal sense of
The powerful poem ‘Weapons Training’ showcases a sergeant, through malicious words, guiding his troops. However it is through ‘Homecoming’, where Dawe exposes the brutal hopelessness brought forth by the futility of war. Therefore it can be seen that war has an emotional toll on both families and the soldiers. Both poems have a recurring message that all war does is bring loss, death and mourning, showcasing Dawes strong opinions about a futile
“And into our pierced and shattered souls bored the torturing image of the brown earth with the greasy sun and the convulsed and dead soldiers, who lie there - it can't be helped - who cry and clutch at our legs as we spring away over them.” (remarque
The poet Wilfred Owen was one of many poets who were against war. He reflected this idea of anti-war in his poems, one of his poems called “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, mirrors most aspects of war all put together in this short still deep poem. An example of that would be when the speaker stated,” What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?”(1) The speaker asks is there any sound that marks our soldier’s death other than the sounds of church bell’s which are mostly rung to represent somebody’s absence? Clearly, the speaker sets anger as the tone of the poem through this question to show that soldier’s death is unremarkable.. The speaker compares the soldiers to a “cattle” which illustrates that soldiers are treated more like animals with no feelings and also shows how they are killed indiscriminately in war. Finally the line ironically contains an iambic pentameter which is a natural rhythm for such dark, grim, dull subject. The two novels, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane, and All Quiet on The Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, both present a similar idea of how soldiers are killed out there in the front comprehensively and the dehumanization of war towards its soldiers. The first novel is set during the Civil War, and it focuses on the psychological aspects of one soldier named Henry Fleming and how his naive thoughts about war constantly change through the course of the novel. The second novel presents the life of a soldier named Paul Baumer and his friends who were faced with the terribleness of war and how severely it affected their lives. The Red badge of Courage and All Quiet on The Western Front are similar in the way of how the main characters develop through the novel to change from naïve and innocent men ...
...is painful, but without direct experience, these values hold incomplete meaning. A writer’s job is to color in the holes—to paint an entire picture of the immense, excruciating pain war inflicts. Beyond monotonous explanation, a writer produces engaging moving pictures which arouse all the senses. Once keenly aware of seemingly indescribable suffering, an audience may evaluate the purpose and significance of war’s pains. A writer latches onto an audience’s change in perception to introduce his or her own viewpoint. Powerful description not only reproduces an immersive experience but also communicates and encourages the development of new ideas.
In Brian Turner’s poem “Jundee Ameriki” (American soldier), he gives gruesome details of a situation that triggered posttraumatic stress disorder in a soldier of war. The poem, written in 2009, addresses a suicide bombing which occurred during the War on Iraq in November of 2005. At first the poem shares the events of his doctor’s visit. While getting the shrapnel fragments removed, the soldier is quickly reminded of the horrific events that led to the injury. The poem then begins to describe the emotional effects of posttraumatic stress disorder. The narrator uses symbolism and the structure of the poem to demonstrate how the emotional pain of posttraumatic stress disorder is much greater than the physical pain it causes (even if the emotional
Through reading this poem several times I decided that the message from the poem is that war is full of horror and there is little or no glory. Methods which I found most effective were Full rhyme and metaphor.
Remarque displays the brutal effect war has on people’s minds. Paul Baumer suffers from several psychological disorders that the war
Boone and Yost were supportive by establishing good relations with subordinates. They used the participative style where they allow the team to participate in decisions, both coaches were achievements-oriented where they sets challenging goals and seeks improvements in performance. Boone and Yost inspired the team to find solutions to the problems they are facing, because finding solutions is a motivating force for the team.
This opening paragraph is a simple, poetic version of the main theme behind All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. The point of the story is to show that war is not romantic, glorious, or fantastic. In fact, those words could not be further from the truth. War is a disgusting competition of human instinct, fought by the wrong people. It brings out the worst in everyone; it destroys their compassion, honesty, and ideals. The beginning chapters of All Quiet on the Western Front are devoted to showing that warfare hardens soldiers against true emotions. Their main priority is survival, second is comfort, followed by gain.
One of the worst things about war is the severity of carnage that it bestows upon mankind. Men are killed by the millions in the worst ways imaginable. Bodies are blown apart, limbs are cracked and torn and flesh is melted away from the bone. Dying eyes watch as internal organs are spilled of empty cavities, naked torso are hung in trees and men are forced to run on stumps when their feet are blown off. Along with the horrific deaths that accompany war, the injuries often outnumber dead men. As Paul Baumer witnessed in the hospital, the injuries were terrifying and often led to death. His turmoil is expressed in the lines, “Day after day goes by with pain and fear, groans and death gurgles. Even the death room I no use anymore; it is too small.” The men who make it through the war take with them mental and physical scarification from their experiences.
...and the way that the opposing sides think of each other is awful. The fact that one side is praying for disaster to come on their enemies isn’t showing God’s love and at the end of the poem it says, “We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love.” It is out of love for their own soldiers but not for the soldiers on the other side. This poem shows the real aspects of people’s feelings about war. Many people don’t want their own side to be crushed, but they don’t care if the other side does get crushed.
	The pounding of shells, the mines, the death traps, the massive, blind destruction, the acrid stench of rotting flesh, the communal graves, the charred bodies, and the fear. These are the images of war. War has changed over the centuries from battles of legions of ironclad soldiers enveloped in glimmering armor fighting for what they believe to senseless acts of guerrilla warfare against those too coward to be draft-dodgers. Those who were there, who experienced the terror first hand were deeply effected and changed forever. In their retinas, images of blood and gore are burned for the rest of their life.
War is a machine that extracts young men and women from reality. It twists their morals until they do not know what is right or wrong. This level of dehumanization and objectification is clearly argued in Ron Kovic’s Born on the Fourth of July: “He had never been anything but a thing to them, a thing to put a uniform on and train to kill, a young thing to run through the meat-grinder, a cheap small nothing thing to make mincemeat out of” (165). War is the “meat-grinder.” Soldiers only matter because they can kill. War tears apart the people fighting it. Coming out of the war Kovic does not know what to do. He is lost. This aimless feeling is similar to the experiences of Jake and the Gang in Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. The protagonist, Jake Barnes, and his entourage wander the streets of Paris and Madrid with no purpose. After war, the real w...