Compare And Contrast Essay On The Great War
Carman Slone
Sue Oakes
CS1100: Summer 2017
July 6, 2017
Unit I: Midterm Exam
Comparing Literature from the Great War
One may know very little of what war was really like. Maybe you have a close friend or loved one that has experienced it first hand. Perhaps you are a history buff or possible a war hero yourself. No matter what the circumstances of ones life and interest, war has affected many and all lives across the world. Through evaluating values in the two different works depicting the World War I, War Horse and Wilfred Owens’s short poem have many similarities as well as differences. By further analyzing both pieces the goal is to aid in a better understanding of World War I.
. Being forced to go fight in a different country and somehow being tricked into doing so through propaganda glamorizing the Great War. Being cold and wet and watching men die around you and better make sure you have a gas mask. My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.[line 25-28] The lie that people must tell themselves about the war when the truth is that you are probably going to die. In comparison to the final scene of the movie “War Horse,” when the son comes home on Joey and the mom …show more content…
Finally figuring out that it was a horse the men are to fearful to run out to help it. “How do you call a horse,” one solder asks while in the trenches the whole platoon starts whistling for this horse. The horse of coarse is Joey caught in a barbwire fence used to keep out the enemy. This scene is nothing like the poem. The Poem does not give any hope like this scene from “War Horse” gave. In the poem shows the desperation; Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of tired, outstripped five-nines that dropped behind[lines
Sue Oakes
CS1100: Summer 2017
July 6, 2017
Unit I: Midterm Exam
Comparing Literature from the Great War
One may know very little of what war was really like. Maybe you have a close friend or loved one that has experienced it first hand. Perhaps you are a history buff or possible a war hero yourself. No matter what the circumstances of ones life and interest, war has affected many and all lives across the world. Through evaluating values in the two different works depicting the World War I, War Horse and Wilfred Owens’s short poem have many similarities as well as differences. By further analyzing both pieces the goal is to aid in a better understanding of World War I.
. Being forced to go fight in a different country and somehow being tricked into doing so through propaganda glamorizing the Great War. Being cold and wet and watching men die around you and better make sure you have a gas mask. My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.[line 25-28] The lie that people must tell themselves about the war when the truth is that you are probably going to die. In comparison to the final scene of the movie “War Horse,” when the son comes home on Joey and the mom …show more content…
Finally figuring out that it was a horse the men are to fearful to run out to help it. “How do you call a horse,” one solder asks while in the trenches the whole platoon starts whistling for this horse. The horse of coarse is Joey caught in a barbwire fence used to keep out the enemy. This scene is nothing like the poem. The Poem does not give any hope like this scene from “War Horse” gave. In the poem shows the desperation; Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots of tired, outstripped five-nines that dropped behind[lines