The Four Brothers Poem Analysis

Anthem for Doomed Youth Owens Anthem for Doomed Youth is written from a soldier’s perspective and is influenced by his own experiences in the First World War. He viewed war as a waste, as in his time of duty he saw countless deaths that did not have to occur. He writes of the suffering experienced by the soldiers and the agony of their families. Written in two stanzas, Own in the first stanza focuses on the imagery and sounds of the battlefield, while the second stanza highlights their families. Owen’s poem focuses on the death on battlefields and shows how those who die in war often do not receive the normal ceremonies that are used to honor the dead.

Paul explains the bloodiest battle against the French, which resulted in hundreds of casualties. At this point, it becomes clear that Germany is losing the war, and is running out of adult men able to fight. After this horrific battle, Paul was able to go home for a couple of days. Seeing his family again made him happy however, he had to maintain an emotional distance to prepare himself for returning to the trenches. When back on the front, he is faced with an experience he had never had before, killing a man.

So he saw saw how war affected everyone because his job in the was was to carry the injured to get help. He saw what happened to everyone. So when he said “humanity I love you” it is ironic because at the end of the poem he said “humanity I hate you” which is a more accurate description of his feeling towards all of humanity, so what he means with this quote is that the governing leaders or every power are putting people 's lives in their pockets and then not caring so they sent them off to die in the war (WWI) because over 14 million soldiers died. They sat down and forgot that their are people dieing so they can sit down and drink tea. Just like Kat said “Give 'em all the same grub and all the same pay/And the war would be over and done in a day."

The Iraqi soldiers describe how death becomes the new norm; soldiers tend to lose the value behind taking someone’s life after so many years fighting in combat. The various soldiers express how they feel: There is guilt for taking another man’s life, guilt for being okay when their fellow soldiers suffering from serious combat accidents, and guilt for reporting home while the rest of the combat team is still stuck fighting in the Iraq War. In conclusion, “Soldiers’ Stories” and “Hiroshima” are very similar; they use the victims’ stories of war to send you on a journey through different viewpoints about the evils of war. John Berger’s story “Hiroshima” focuses on how the evils of war affect the average innocent civilian while “Soldiers’ Stories” by various authors illustrate how the evils of war affect

The Writers' Attitudes to War in Three Poems The First World War was the most destructive ever known. Nearly a million British men were killed and it affected every town and village. The 18-40 male age group was dramatically diminished, which meant nearly a whole generation was wiped out. During the war people got increasing information about the war conditions and the patriotic excitement disappeared. This affected the number of men enlisting.

I began to think of myself again” (86). The war has made Elie realize he can only afford to think of himself or else he will die. “Dulce et Decorum Est” shows how one soldiers need to survive indirectly causes another soldiers death. From the very beginning of the poem the reader sees how the war affects the soldiers. Fighting in the war has aged the soldiers, the once young men now “bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock-kneed, coughing like hags” trudge through the warzone (Owen 1-2).

The Cause of Death in All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is a very interesting and true-to-heart novel based in the first world war where many men and women died because someone called them the enemy. The main character is Paul Baumer, a nineteen year old man who is swept into the war, along with his friends, not one day before he is out of school. They are sent to the front to "protect the fatherland" or Germany as it is called. Paul and his friends go from this idealistic opinion to disillusionment throughout the book as they discover the truth that the enemy is just like them, and Paul's friends start being killed one-by-one. This novel is a gripping account of how war is most of the time bloody and horrid.

While men in the war died due to combat, the majority of the deaths were caused by sickness in the trenches. Whether they were killed, injured, or taken prisoner, it was a huge blow to morale to the allied forces and changed how people viewed war, and this may have caused people to question whether the men who died in the war really died for their country, or for a lost cause. In Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est”, the idea of an unglorified death is presented by the use of irony in ... ... middle of paper ... ...f those who began it that cause and effect seemed to have broken down entirely.” WWI, as depicted through the eyes of American poets, left the nation spiritually and physically crippled. In Langston Hughes “Poem to a Dead Soldier,” death had become so impersonal and normal in the war that it no longer carried a sense of heroism along with it. Other poets like Will Cather had similar idead.

If someone we know does die, we are shocked and forced to reconsider our lives because, for an instant, we realize that we could die as well. Unlike us, the youth in The Red Badge of Courage knows about death first hand, and he is unafraid. When the youth was young, his father died. Through the novel, the youth is fighting in the bloodiest war on American soil and the war that caused the most casualties per capita of any U.S. war. He has seen corpses and walked with dying men.

Before joining the war, Kemmerich was an ordinar... ... middle of paper ... ..., they just died. The third idea that the author uses to un-romanticize the beauty or glory of war is that a war can and will ruin a country’s economy. In World War I, life was unbearable for the soldiers serving in the war, but the citizens suffered too. Citizens had to cut down on their supply of food, fabric, and many other needs to support the troops. Paul Baumer and his mother had a conversation regarding the stock of food during the war.