What Is The Tone Of Channel Frights Of War

Lovelace’s diction helps to develop the theme that war requires a passionate commitment from soldiers and can be as consuming as a relationship with a person the poet uses many dictions throughout the poem that suggests going to war such as ‘chaste, mistress, embrace, inconstancy, adore and love’. Likewise, Tennyson’s diction helps to develop the themes that war places soldiers under extreme stress, and soldiers can fight bravely and honorably even if the result of the battle is unsuccessful. In contrast, the word choices in Owen’s poem supports the theme that war is destructive, bitter, and violent, not the romantic efforts praised by those outside of it. Diction that has a strong impact on Borden’s poem is ‘satin, ermine, chic’, or words that have strong negative connotations such as ‘obscene, putrid, monstrous’. Equally important, The Diction in Borden’s poem support the theme that war is indifferent to human life. Words that display The Diction in “The Song of the Mud” are ‘cursed, sludge, haunting, trudge, blood-shod’. Whereas The tone of Lovelace’s poem is romantic and slightly playful along with Tennyson tone, which establishes a serious and respectful tone that also acknowledges the stress and confusion of war. Unlike the tone in the first set of poems, A great example of irony in Owen’s poem is “Ecstasy” (line 9), which usually associated with positive feelings of joy or intense

Channel Firing was published in early 1915. The author of the poem is Thomas Hardy. Hardy is known for his controversial poems about war with relation to God. The poem was written before the start of WWI. The overall message the reader receives from this poem is an anti-war message, the pointlessness of war and the destruction it has. This message is made clear through the variety of sound devices Hardy uses throughout the poem. Firstly, the poem follows the rhyming scheme of a typical English sonnet. The rhyming scheme is ABAB, which is used in all nine stanzas, made up of a quatrain set. Each stanza is made up of three quatrains and will end with a couplet. The form in this poem contributes to the meaning of the poem as it develops the ideas

Machine guns firing overhead, artillery shells raining down, drowning out the hellish screams of soldiers as they gasp for their last breath. Boys, not quite old enough to be men, lay lifeless in the barb-wired filled No Man’s Land. Long gone are the days of traditional warfare. There is no honour, no glory there are only two things that remain: life and death. The scene in World War 1 was one of gruesome battles of attrition fought in bloody, disease ridden trenches where hundreds of thousands of troops gave their lives to simply gain a kilometer or two of land. The First World War was a culmination of technologies developed over the previous century which resulted in “an orgy of violence to which rifles, machine-guns, flame throwers, artillery

Life in the trenches during WWI was miserable. There seem to be no words that could truly match the horrific experience, but soldiers tried to conjure images using literature to come close to their experience. As stated in The World’s History, Europe had not warfare on such a scale since the Napoleonic wars (Spodek 664). Even watching the American Civil War from afar could not have prepared Europe and the young men that served for the devastation WWI brought. The poems described the war as a collection of numbed men, simply waiting to die, “lines of grey, muttering faces.” Men who had joined to serve their country had now become disillusioned with the nobility of dying for their country, wondering if the suffering both in and out of the trenches

In war, each side sees the other as a faceless enemy that they feel no remorse for killing. War time propaganda and nationalism led each country to villain their opponents even though they are all equal. Every soldier is a regular citizen who is fighting the war only to protect their family. In the poem “The Man He Killed,” Thomas Hardy’s diction choice, syntax, and cyclical structure convey the idea that the people on both sides of the war are equal.

On 21st October 1915, ladies and gentlemen, board of the ‘Poetry Now Festival’, you and I, have enlisted in the Artists ' Rifles Officers ' Training Corps. As honourable soldiers we’re aware that as time passes, our imaginative existence has changed dramatically by a number of traumatic experiences. We, are ALL Wilfred Owen. One of the most enduring phenomena spawned The Great War created a literal response which evoked from its immediate participants, the soldiers. Owen writes with intense focus on war as an extraordinary human experience. The poems also document other experiences, such as human cruelty and suffering which are carefully structured to convey meaning, and through the use of figurative language conveying the sights and sounds of the battlefield and of trauma. With reference to ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, ‘The Next War’ and ‘Anthem Of Doomed Youth’, Owen’s intention were to arouse an awareness of the fluctuations of fortune and mood during war and to promote an understanding that a these shifts were reflected in an enormous body of literature. Owen successfully portrays the relationship between the changing perceptions of authority/government, as the young soldiers begin to feature in the delightful and

Poems are typically written in a distinctive way to convey a specific message to the reader. The words or diction construct a poem by depicting ideas, feelings, setting, and characters. Therefore, a poet must chose his/her words with great care to create the appropriate message and to allow the reader to comprehend the general meaning. Thomas Hardy composed The Man He Killed, a poem demonstrating the effect war has upon soldiers and how war changes friend into a foe. The informal diction used by Hardy adds to the general meaning and impact of the poem. Idiom, specific and concrete words, and rhyming are all combined to form the diction of the poem, which enhance the

The war poetry I am going to compare was written by Wilfred Owen and Thomas Hardy. Wilfred Owen was born in Wales in 1893. He wrote poetry as a teenager and at the age of 20 he began teaching English in France as an assistance teacher. 2 years later he joined the Manchester regiment and fought in World War 1 and 3 years later in 1918 he died near the Belgian border whilst taking his men across the Sambre canal at Ors. Therefore we know his writing shows his personal experiences.rdy was born in 1840 in the south of England. He began writing in 1867. He was more famous for his novels but also wrote about the Boer war.

Poets of WW1 use various poetic techniques such as metaphors, similes, imperatives, biblical references, alliteration, rhetorical questions, personifications, sibilance, irony, ellipsis, contrast and rhyming in their poetry to depict the horror and destruction caused by war, and send a powerful message to their readers. Wilfred Owen's 'Futility' and 'Dulce et Decorum Est', Siegfried Sassoon's 'Suicide in the Trenches' and Herbert Read's 'The Happy Warrior' are all poems which reflect on this, as well as depict the psychological and physical damage the war has on the young soldiers and convey a profound pity towards them.

Many of the best poets are driven by a need to communicate the reality of the situation, particularly to those who are innocent, especially in times of war. Through the detailed and close analysis of texts we can explore how these poems, utilize form and language to convey their message or warning, or simply portray the reality of war. A poet must warn the innocent of the reality of war, and that is why all poets must be truthful, an example being, Wilfred Owen’s war poems in which Owen portrays a message, warning all readers, in which his horrific first hand experiences of WW1, highly refute and contradict the governments glorified portrayal of war. He also conveys his message that the real truth of war, is the brutal and pointless deaths of many, and if the patriots back home knew what he experienced first handedly, they would reconsider their support for the so called “cause” which can be seen specifically in his war poems; Dulce et decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed youth.

Both poets present a differing attitude to war through literary techniques. Hardy presents a very jingoistic, patriotic attitude to war through his use of language and repetition. Whereas, Charles Sorely uses a less patriotic tone and focuses more on war being very negative through his use of language, biblical imagery and structure.

In the poem The Man He Killed, it takes place during the war. The narrator discusses meeting someone in a bar in the first stanza. In the second stanza, he tells how he killed the man. In the third stanza, he explains why he killed him. In the next stanza, he describes why he thinks the man enlisted in the war, similar to his own reason. Finally, the poem ends with him saying that you kill fellows in the war, people you could be friends with. He explains the war as quaint and curious, he is using irony. The author Thomas Hardy uses repetition and punctuation in a way that signifies a change in tone.

In 1915 alone, the French lost over one million men, the Germans more than 600,000 and the British more than a quarter of a million. Therefore, in our opinion, one of the aims of the poet is to show what the war did to people.

English Poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Neither it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except war. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense consolatory. They maybe to the next. All a poet can do today is warning. That is why true Poets must be truthful” -- Wilfred Owen, from a preface to a planned book of his poetry

During the war over 59 million troops were mobilized, 8 million died and 29 million were injured. (wilde, 2014). Both the poems had exhibited the effects of the destructive war.” War broke: and now the Winter of the world With perishing great darkness closes in”(1914). Here Owen was trying to convince that the war was like a winter which was cold and harsh affecting the world by making it dark. Dark here means destructive and terrifying which will deprive the happiness and prosperity of the world. ”The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere. The ceremony of innocence is drowned;” (Yeats. 1919). This statement also has a similar point of view as the in Owen’s “1914” the consequences of war was likely to be devastating as it snatched the peace and happiness from the people. Yeats had associated the war with bloodshed and downfall of