'Next To You God Of Course America'
Spoils of War
In the poem “Next to you god of course america” by e.e. cummings figurative devices and sarcasm are used to reveal the hate some people have towards World War I The poem starts with a man speaking of how honorable and fascinating America in the war is. He sings parts of songs and questions anyone who thinks war is distasteful. This, at first glance, may be seen as love toward the great country but with the use of diction, similes, and line spacing the truth is revealed. The speaker is a man in a different country looking at America as savage like for fighting in a war. He believes they are no heros for claim to fight for liberty when they are only slaughtering like beasts. The poet e.e cummings is arguing, through another man, that the war america is fighting is fooling …show more content…
This line says “He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water”(Line 14). There is some history of the writer e.e. Cummings to examine this line. Cummings went to Paris and was arrested for espionage because the French believed he was spying against America during World War I. This line says “He spoke” which implies that someone else is telling e.e. Cummings these ideas. Cummings must have made a different man saying this so no one would question him on questioning the war. The thing is, though, Cummings must have agreed with these idea because if not he would not have written them down. This proves these ideas were a bit radical in these times especially with World War I still going on. Cummings uses many figurative devices ,and different tones through the speaker to express how he thought war is unconstitutional and horrible. Through the simile and the sarcasm used in the poem the reader learns of war and how men only fight for blood, and how war is not actually beautiful. Cumming was able to show the true spoils of war through this simple 14 line poem full of connotations that show that the writer does not agree with
In the poem “Next to you god of course america” by e.e. cummings figurative devices and sarcasm are used to reveal the hate some people have towards World War I The poem starts with a man speaking of how honorable and fascinating America in the war is. He sings parts of songs and questions anyone who thinks war is distasteful. This, at first glance, may be seen as love toward the great country but with the use of diction, similes, and line spacing the truth is revealed. The speaker is a man in a different country looking at America as savage like for fighting in a war. He believes they are no heros for claim to fight for liberty when they are only slaughtering like beasts. The poet e.e cummings is arguing, through another man, that the war america is fighting is fooling …show more content…
This line says “He spoke. And drank rapidly a glass of water”(Line 14). There is some history of the writer e.e. Cummings to examine this line. Cummings went to Paris and was arrested for espionage because the French believed he was spying against America during World War I. This line says “He spoke” which implies that someone else is telling e.e. Cummings these ideas. Cummings must have made a different man saying this so no one would question him on questioning the war. The thing is, though, Cummings must have agreed with these idea because if not he would not have written them down. This proves these ideas were a bit radical in these times especially with World War I still going on. Cummings uses many figurative devices ,and different tones through the speaker to express how he thought war is unconstitutional and horrible. Through the simile and the sarcasm used in the poem the reader learns of war and how men only fight for blood, and how war is not actually beautiful. Cumming was able to show the true spoils of war through this simple 14 line poem full of connotations that show that the writer does not agree with