War has long figured as a theme 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 fighting and dying .In three different literary works and by three different authors the topic of war is presented in a variety of styles. .
Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" uses bright imagery in order to correct the patriotic idea that it is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. Randall Jarrell's "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" compares decrease in war to an abortion by using ambiguity. However, in "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, the ambiguity is displayed with irony to demonstrate that death is one of life's most challenging obstacles. Each work presents the death of a man for his country and wants to allow readers feel the situation, to see with their own eyes the conflict that the struggling and dying soldier goes through. At the same time express the horror and futility of dying for a state by using different style.
In "Dulce et Decorum Est" Wilfred Owen uses a large amount of details. First he describes soldiers as "beggars" (664) struggling towards a horrible destination and as a group of ill and exhausted soldiers trading through the battlefield on their knees by using vivid imaginary "knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge" (664). Owen gives an image of soldiers that is far from patriotic view of war "men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-shod" (664).
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Reaction to War Letters" I am really glad that I was introduced to this book called War Letters. ... For example, a description of a Civil War battle is very different from a Korean War battle, and it is fairly able to recognize because of the unique wording of the soldiers. ... There is no doubt that a great love existed between the soldier's and their wives, but this separation from them and the cruelty of war, in my opinion, just seemed to increase the need to be with and make it back to their spouses. ... The war will somehow affect everyone somehow. ... So, it seems ironic to ...
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From the ages of fourteen to to twenty-six de Sade was in the active military service, and served in the Seven Years War ( 1754-1761). ... The most famous being for his enjoyment of cruelty amongst the women that he was sexually involved with. ... Sade gave birth to the term Sadism from these and several other acts, which means the enjoyment of cruelty. Although he was released for a time period to partake in the Revolutionary War, de Sade found himself back in prison. It is said that his will and drive were lost after the war...
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According to most people he became the prime leader of the modernist movement in the field of Literature as his poetry and drama revolutionized the genres, as did his critical analysis of different forms of literature. His revitalizing work finally awarded him the Noble Peace Prize of Literature in 1948. ... Being a literature modernist, TS Eliot had not forgone a sense of unorthodox workings in his play. His play challenges contemporary values and attitudes by focusing on points that were ignored in the world of depression and post World War 1. ... The reason for this trend was to cheer ...