extremely devastating weapons such as the machine gun‚ and the atom bomb. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner" gives a small insight to such chaos. It is a poem written by Randall Jarrel while he served in the Army Air Force during World War II. It is a poem about the thoughts the gunner might have felt as he carried out his mission‚ and is probably based on firsthand experience with a ball turret or a gunner.
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this to be inronic. I am sure that it refers to returning to camp or barracks. I would also suppose that many faced the wages of war. Later in the poem we know he has to watch a comrade go through this experience. I believe it could also reference death that must have seemed very close at times to them. I noticed that all through the poem you feel the struggles and pain from his metaphoric language. It seems exhaustive as you read I really felt the imagery of these broken men giving the last of what
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The irony in the poem Dulce it Decorum Est is that it is not sweet and fitting to die for one’s country when you have actually experienced war. Owen is describing how psychologically and physically exhausting W.W.I was for the soldiers that had to endure such a cruel ordeal and not how patriotic and honorable it was . In the first stanza Owen describes how the soldiers are trudging back to camp from battle. We see the soldiers‚ fatigued and wounded‚ returning to base camp: Bent double‚ like
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Reflection on “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” Rebeca Espirito Santo The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner “From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze Six miles from the earth‚ loosed from its dream of life I woke to black flack and the nightmare fighters When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose
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. In Owen’s “Dulce Et Decorum Est‚” Owen provides the reader with many examples of imagery conveyed through various literary devices. In English‚ Dulce Et Decorum Est‚ translates to “it is sweet and fitting‚ to die for your native land.” The images of excitement‚ death‚ and sadness that are painted by Owen are the most well conveyed and therefore the most impactful images and to ultimately show the irony in the poem because of Owen’s choice of literary techniques. An example that is well projected
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In this essay I intend to compare the poems by historical‚ social and the cultural aspects of the poems‚I will also examine poetic language in the poems. I have studied the poems: Dulce et decorum est‚ the charge of the light brigade‚ suicide in the trenches‚ the man he killed and in Flanders field. THE CHARGE OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE- Lord Alfred Tennyson The first poem – the charge of the light brigade- which I have studied. In this poem lord Alfred Tennyson is describing the event in the
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rest” -Sure‚ he could be talking about the barracks to which we guess that they’re headed -Then again‚ they’re soldiers in a war that wiped out over nine million men. Nine million. -The “distant rest” to which our soldiers are heading may just be death -Trudging through the sludge is a pretty decent description of the trench warefare that became the battle plan for much of the First World War Line 5 Men marched asleep Zombies Owen’s option for concise realism here: there’s no need to fancy up the
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Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’ ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke are poems about war which treat their subjects differently. Both poems are examples of the authors’ perceptions of war; Owen’s being about its bitter reality and Brooke’s about the glory of dying for one’s country. The poets express their sentiments on the subject matter in terms of language‚ tone‚ rhyme‚ rhythm and structure. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ has very
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Dulce et Decorum Est Analysis Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” shows the reality of war firsthand. He writes about the memories and flashbacks of world war I. Owen describes in his writing that people will encourage you to fight for your country‚ but‚ it may be sentencing yourself to a pointless demise. He is well aware that death is hideous. He makes you feel like you are in war. Owen uses imagery‚ similes‚ and irony to make the reader engaged in his poem. Owen uses interesting words
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Commentary-“Dulce et Decorum Est” Within the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” the author makes valid depictions of what he truly wants to inform readers of or about. There are different literary elements used by the author to illustrate the true essence of the poem. Such literary elements like metaphors‚ paradox‚ and imagery are used to show the meaning of the poem and what the author has to say. In developing the theme of the poem‚ the literary element most used that really helps to develop the theme
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