Compare And Contrast War Is Kind And A Mystery Of Heroism

Stephen Crane talks about death like it is a casual thing. He glorifies people dying and uses ironic emotions to show his opposing opinion to war. Crane puts the war in a different perspective than people expected to see it in. Crane opposes the war, in the poem “War is Kind” and short story “A Mystery Of Heroism” he uses irony to show this with surviving through bad times and the use of ironic emotions.
Stephen Crane shows irony in surviving through bad times in both the short story and the poem . In “A Mystery of Heroism” he shows the Collins running through a field with people shooting at him to get water. He makes it back without being harmed even though “In the air, little pieces of shell howled and the earthquake explosions drove him insane with the menace of their roar.”. He was put in a dangerous situation and miraculously did not get hurt. Which is not what the readers would expect to happen to someone running through a battlefield.Crane uses emotions while also showing people survive through bad times in different ways.
Crane uses ironic emotions to show the irony in supporting the war in both of his works. He tells the maiden “Don’t weep” which is the opposite of what she should be doing if her lover died. In “War
Crane uses irony to appeal to people for and against the war. He shows his use of irony in several different ways. The soldiers having a heated discussion on the battlefield. The narrator telling the maiden not to weep. The mother being humble over her son’s coffin.Irony is deep seated in the phrase “war is kind”, this is a big use of irony because war is the last thing you would imagine to be kind. The phrase “war is kind” is repeated through the entire poem to emphasize his point. People might take Crane’s works far too literally and not realize the sarcasm and irony that he means to put across, but Crane gets his opposition to the war across with his use of