Rough Draft War Essay

Is it sweet and fitting to die for your country; is war really kind? In comparison of two poems, Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and Stephen Crane’s “War is Kind;” both successfully use language to describe how they see war and will help find out if there is an answer to the question above.

What type of language am I referring to between “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and “War is Kind?” What I mean is that they are both portrayals of how they see the war whether it is negative or positive. First lets focus on Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est.” The title of this poem threw me for a loop. When I read the title “Dulce et Decorum Est;” which when translated means, “It is sweet and fitting to die for your country,” I thought it was going to be about a soldier speaking of how honorable it is to die for his country. On the contrary it was sad and rather graphic and not so pleasant an account of what the war was like through his eyes. If I had to think of one word to describe Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” it would be that it is very explicit. It is straight and to the point. Simply because Wilfred doesn't include many implications, and this would explain the graphic details in his poem. Why butter up the truth, he might s

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Who is mother and is she good? Could it be our country, USA? Yes, I feel they author successfully used the word mother here in a positive way. " I wanted to pick up my feet and march with those brave soldiers. The last difference, again it is discussed in Literature and the Writing Process (pages 450-452). A good example might be, “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est,” It states that they feel that it is not so fitting to die for your country. My one word summary for this poem is that it is very abstract. ” I feel that the writer wanted to get his point across about how honorable it is to die for your country and tells us not to weep sorrowful tears, but joyful tears. ” The word like shows us that the author is making use of a simile here and he does this more than once.

In conclusion, is it sweet and fitting to die for your country; is war really kind? Upon reading these two poems, I feel that war has many interpretations and cannot be labeled one way or the other. Yet in the end the questions still looms. I would recommend these poems to those who are confused about war, to give them an idea of what war could be from both sides of the spectrum. (Page 450) “Mother whose heart hung humble as a button,” is an example of this insinuation. In contract to this the poem, "War is Kind," doesn’t have the similes or metaphors. Owen speaks of a soldier(s) trudging through a battle feild, the horors of getting shot or smeling gas, while trying to get away.

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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

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