“War is Kind‚” a poem by Stephen Crane‚ discusses the hardships of war and its effects on people. Amongst the many tragedies that happen during war is death‚ which has taken the lives of many men. War does not only impact those who fight in it‚ but also the families of the men who have lost their lives on the battlefield. In “War is Kind‚” the poet believes that there is nothing patriotic about the war. Crane focuses on three main struggles of war that show how it is viewed universally. A massive
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Irony in Stephen Crane’s War Is Kind Most poets use their unique gift of writing poetry to relieve stress or just to document their emotions towards a given subject. Others use it as a key to bring about social change and voice their opinion on modern events. This is the case in Stephen Crane’s War Is Kind. The speaker in the poem uses irony as a strategy to convince the reader of the harsh reality of war. In the first few lines of the poem‚ the reader can already receive a feel of the irony
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Harshness of War Effects Soldiers‚ As Well As the People Close to Them in “The Wound Dresser” and “Wars is Kind” @“The Wound Dresser” by Walt Whitman and “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane‚ are both sad yet beautifully poetic works of art that focus on the harshness of war with many similarities displayed in diverse ways like tone‚ writing style‚ theme‚ and how the author’s individual experiences with war have helped create these works of art. @First‚ both “The Wound Dresser” and “War is Kind” are similar
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The poem “War is Kind” was written by Stephen Crane in 1899. He was born after the civil war‚ but died before WWI. Crane wrote this poem about the civil war and the men who fought in it. The poem has three different themes: Warfare‚ The Home‚ and Patriotism. “War is Kind” does not mean that war is actually kind it is just saying that people are willing to go into battle and sacrifice their lives for their country. War is cruel‚ not kind‚ the exact opposite of what Crane repeats throughout the poem
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War is Kind In Stephen Cranes poem “War is Kind‚” He uses repetition‚ tone and imagery‚ to communicate his theme: war is not kind‚ it is horrible. Repetition is the most prominent literary element used by the author. One of the most repeated phrases is "war is kind." Not only does it appear in the title‚ but it is repeated in lines 15‚ 12‚ 16‚ and 26. Crane illustrates that he is being verbally ironic. He does not mean that war is kind‚ but that war creates Misery. The phrase "do not weep" is
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When I first read this poem‚ I thought the speaker was showing sympathy by saying “war is kind” to people who had lost loved ones in the war‚ or that “war is kind” because it eventually makes peace. But then I realized‚ the more that I think about war and how it is not at all kind makes me believe the speaker in this poem is being sarcastic when he says that “war is kind”. I still believe that he was showing sympathy in a paradoxical way. Society tends to overlook how bad war really is and how gruesome
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Explication Essay 2 Stephen Crane’s poem “War is Kind” is an anti war poem written in the late 19th century. The author is very critical of war and questions if the loss of life and limb are worth it. Through the use of structure and sarcasm Stephen Crane persuades the reader to look at war through his eyes in a very critical manner. The very title‚ “War is Kind” is sarcastic. The reader however‚ does not find this out immediately. The poem is structured into five stanzas that seem
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When war occurs‚ it not only affects the people involved in the war‚ such as the soldiers fighting for their country in the trenches; but it affects the people outside of the war‚ such as loved ones of soldiers‚ and citizens of the country involved. The poem “War is Kind” by Stephen Crane describes the effects of war on soldiers and civilians by depicting that for soldiers‚ war is an act that they were born to do‚ and after experiencing it‚ it is the only thing they will ever know; and for civilians
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War is a time of violence‚ protest‚ death and pain for many people around the world. With this conflict‚ a lot of poetry is written because poetry is one of the most common ways for people to put across their feelings about situations. War is one of these situations for which many people have very strong feelings. A common theme in war poetry is the transformation that war brings about in a person. Many poems reveal boys going into war and becoming young men after the experience. Another dominant
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protesting against the Vietnam war‚ however‚ they use different techniques and writing stiles to convey the message. The Song uses a first person narrative stile to convey the traumatic experiences of the soldiers‚ the poem‚ however‚ does not refer to experiences‚ instead it uses strong‚ passionate words that directly refer to the effect of trauma. The beginning sentence of the poem clearly shows the authors stile of writing‚ bringing the audience straight to the point. “War drags men to the very edge
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