Hardy in ‘The Man He Killed’ is trying to tell us how war is futile as men are killed just because they are on opposing sides. The poem, compared to ‘Drummer Hodge,’ is much more retrospective. Hardy uses a dramatic monologue throughout the poem, making the poem itself much more personal and leaving a larger impression on the reader, whereas Drummer Hodge is written in the third person; this allows Hardy to describe the treatment of the dead
With no real purpose but to be mindlessly massacred. Through personification, the guns responsible for taking so much human life are made out to be monstrous, even evil. The poem also likens their deaths to a funeral, but one where the bells are shots, and the mourning choirs are the army's bugles. The drawing down of the blinds, the traditional sign to show that the family is in mourning, has been likened to the drawing of a sheet to cover the dead. Through various literary techniques, Wilfred Owen enhances the meaning of the poem.
The poet incorporates the tone to show that after a person has done wrong, like stealing or cheating, as a reaction, we ask for forgiveness, either because we have real guilt or because we believe we should ask for forgiveness without actually meaning it. Pleasure is personified to illuminate the author’s true feelings about the plum being eaten. “So sweet and so cold” symbolizes that the forgiveness he has asked for wasn’t sympathetic due to the fact that he did not regret eating the delicious plum. Also, the tone that the author produces is teasing, teasing the owner of the plum by expressing how good the plum actually was, and that the owner can’t have it anymore because he ate it. The poet ends with a tone that is inevitable to the theme of the poem.
Obviously the piece of cloth is more to some people and perhaps it symbolises people uniting together. Also in ‘Flag’ he mentions ‘that makes the guts of men grow bold’. This is quite a horrible piece of imagery in your mind as the connations of ‘guts’ is very dark and evil. He could of used ‘heart’ but it gives the feel of the sentence a more positive flow, which the writer does not
The funeral orations in Julius Caesar The funeral orations of both Brutus & Antony after Caesar's death The play"Julius caesar" ,Shakespeare's shrotest chronicles the events leading up to julius caesar's assassination and the immediate consequences of his death . After caesar is killed , Antony and Brutus ; both Roman senators eulogize julius caesar . Both speeches had their unique own way of adressing the crowd as well as differing styles and techniques . According to the dictionnary , rhetoric means the "art of persuasive or impressive speaking or writing " . During this essay , I plan to show how both Brutus and Antony use it in their speeches after Caesar's death .
Flash of Light Have you ever heard the saying that in the last moments before you die, your life flashes before your eyes? An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge is a haunting short story by Ambrose Bierce that takes place in the final moments before Peyton Farquhar, a gentleman planter, is to be hanged by the military for plotting against them. Bierce’s dramatic character narrative is a twisting, suspenseful journey through Farquhar’s mind as Farquhar experiences a kaleidoscope of emotions—fear, hopelessness, desperation, disbelief, pride, joy, fatigue, love—in the fleeting seconds before his death. From the vivid descriptions of the uniformed officers in the opening paragraph, it is obvious that there is deep respect for the military in the author’s tone. It is necessary to mention the author’s biography as this story reflects elements of his personal life, which enables him to write about Farquhar’s emotions so dramatically.
The repetition of the word rain also augments its importance. In the following line examples of dark words can also be found, for example, “On this bleak hut, and solitude”. Strangely, on the word “die” at the end of the third line, there is no comma ending the clause, and sentence carries on; perhaps this is Thomas wanting to forget that he shall die. The sentence actually ends on “solitude”, followed by a full stop. We then have the repetition of “rain” in “Blessed are the dead that the rain rains upon”.
Lindsey Pugh AP Literature For Whom the Bell Tolls Answers 1. The title For Whom the Bell Tolls symbolizes a feeling of community in the sense that one man’s death effects mankind as a whole. This directly addresses the reason Robert Jordan joined the war in the first place, although he begins to question these values as the novel goes on. However at the very end, he readopts his values of community by somewhat sacrificing himself for the group to kill the fascists. In addition a church bell ringing symbolizes death.
Ideas about death constantly recur in much of the imagery in Hamlet, not only in order to depict the character development and convey Hamlet’s true emotions to the audience, but also to serve as a metaphorical message on a larger scale. For instance, the imagery of death is utilized to help comprehend the depression Hamlet feels in his first soliloquy about suicide: “O that this too sullied flesh would melt, thaw, and resolve itself into a dew (Act 1, Scene 2),” followed by his comparison of the world to an unweeded garden. This is the first time that Hamlet unleashes his thoughts on the situation and creates a visualization of death. Hamlet thus communicates with the audience putting strong emphasis on his desire not to exist in this world anymore. An image of Hamlet’s dying body is produced, followed by a picture of a beautiful garden corrupted by disastrous weeds that will destroy the good life.
In Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, “The Masque of the Red Death”, he dramatically tells the reader that death isn’t something you can avoid with wealth and power. In “The Masque of the Red Death” Poe starts off by talking about a mysterious disease that devastated the country, and eventually leading toward prince Prospero. Prospero was the leader at this time period and wanted to hide from death.Poe gave dramatic stages while giving mysterious hints like the clock and the 7 rooms. By the end of the story not only did Prospero died after trying to avoid death it’s also where death had killed him. After analyzing a secondary source critical essay I seen a different way of looking at the story from what I had seen, and I agree with his analysis of the story.