Charge of the light brigade and O captain my captain are poems about the defects of war and the impact it can have on people and the nation. Both authors give their perspective of war and how it impacts them. In order to do so they use literary devices to give their opinions. Charge of the Light Brigade and O Captain My Captain both share a theme of war but the authors give their own point of view of war using metaphors, personification, and tone.
The charge of the light brigade and o captain, my captain both use metaphors but are used in different ways. The charge of the light brigade uses metaphors “into the valley of death” in stanza one and two to describe the battlefield. Uses “into the jaws of death” to emphasize that the soldiers were going to die but they kept on going anyway. In o captain my captain the whole poem is a metaphor towards Abraham Lincoln. The sailor on the ship is grieving towards the death of his captain which is abraham lincoln and the people on the dock waiting for his return is the country. Although both authors use metaphors in many ways, they also use personification in many different ways.
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In the charge of the light brigade the author uses personification to give the reader an understanding of what the soldiers had to go through. “Into the mouth of hell” is giving hell a human like characteristic meaning that the soldiers charged into hell/death. In o captain my captain the personification used is to describe what the sailors/people were going through. In line 4 of o captain my captain the vessel, or ship, is bleak because of all it has gone through, but it is daring because it continues on undaunted. Even though both authors used personification, they also differ in the use of
I believe both clips would be a thorough way to help people understand the horrors of slavery. Clip 2 describes Douglass's two masters Captain Anthony and his overseer Mr. Plummer. Douglass states that Captain Anthony, "He was a cruel man, hardened by a long life of slaveholding. He would at times seem to take great pleasure in whipping a slave." (Clip 2) His overseer Mr. Plummer "was a miserable drunkard, a profane swearer, and a savage monster" (Clip 2) he was known to have cut and slash women's head so horribly that even the Master, the cruel man that he was, would at times be so outraged at his cruelty that he would threaten to whip him. They were terrible to their slaves and what they would do to them, Aunt Hester being an example. During
The first poem we are going to look at is ‘The Charge of the Light
Over many centuries, Poetry and song has been a way for people to explore their feelings, thoughts and questions about War & Peace. Rupert Brooke's “The Soldier” and Cold Chisel’s “Khe Sanh” provide two different insights into the nature of war. . “The Soldier” conveys a message of bravery for soldiers to go into war and fight while “Khe sanh” conveys a message about post-traumatic stress and the horrible factors of coming back into civilization after war.
In the book “The Things They Carried”, O’Brien uses imagery, figurative language and repetition to convey his message. O’Brien’s purpose for story telling, is to clear his conscience of war and to tell the stories of soldiers who were forgotten by society. Many young men were sent to war, despite opposing it. They believed it was “wrong” to be sent to their deaths. Sadly, no one realizes a person’s significance until they die. Only remembering how they lived rather than acknowledging their existence when they were alive.
the tent and during the “War!” – “the part that is not for show”, “a
A symbol in literature is an object that stands for a word, cause, belief, or another object. A metaphor is a figure of speech where a word of phrase is applied to something but it should not be taken literally. In the book To Kill a Mockingbird, the mockingbird symbolizes innocence. The mockingbird is innocent, singing for people to hear its music. In the book Atticus says to Scout, “Remember it is a sin to kill a mockingbird.” When Scout asked Miss Maudie about it, Miss Maudie tells her, “Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy… but they sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.” Killing something so innocent would be a sin because it had never done anything to hurt you.
O Brien's point of view is an accurate one as he himself because he is a Vietnam veteran. The title of the short story is meaningful because it describes each soldier’s personality and how he handles conflict within the mind and outside of the body during times of strife. The title fits the life of a soldier perfectly because it shows the reality that war is more than just strategy and attacking of forces. O’Brien narrates the story from two points of view: as the author and the view of the characters. His style keeps the reader informed on both the background of things and the story itself at the same time.
Both authors use sensory imagery to create vivid images in the reader's mind with ease. In Harrison “In the trenches,” he uses descriptive similes and personifications to show the reader the disturbing reality of war effectively. After being viscously bombed, Harrison beautifully describes the “S.O.S” flare that is sent up shortly after being attacked, saying that “the sky is lit by hundreds of fancy fireworks like a night carnival.” This descriptive simile creates a visual image of a sky so bright that it resembles a carnival at night. As incoming bombs were dropping Harrison describes them by using the simile “the air screams and howls like an insane woman,” from this line any reader can imagine what it would sound like if artillery was dropping and exploding near you. Similarly, in twains “two ways of seeing a river,” he uses similes to create vivid images of the “majestic river.” Right from the beginning twain states that “I [have] mastered the language of this water and…every trifling feature…as familiarly as I [know] the letters of the alphabet.” This simile compares his vast knowledge of all the features of the river to his familiarity to the alphabets. The reader can visualize the importance and beauty of the river. Also, both authors similarly utilize sensory
The themes of the two poems are portrayed in very distinctive ways. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ explains in a majestic approach, that fighting in war is something every soldier should honour. The poem is also about the loyalty of the soldiers, not the bad luck or foolishness of men. Tennyson presents this in his poem to show the bravery of the soldiers, although, he only highlights on the benefits of war.
Throughout my life I have noticed many historical figures have used metaphors to get their point across. (Ex. Martin Luther King Jr.)
about war as if it is a joke and the scary aspect of the war is taken
Metaphor is used multiple times, one example of this is when Remarque writes, “I think it is more like a fever… No one in particular wants it, and then all at once there it is”(206). Albert is saying that war is a fever. The boys are discussing who thinks that starting a wa is a good idea and benefits greatly from it. Albert then answers in this way because no one, he believes, would want to start something like this.Another is when Remarque says, “We are little flames poorly sheltered by frail walls against the storm of dissolution and madness, in which we flicker and sometimes almost go out” (275). In this way Remarque is able to explain in the way that the mental attacks of war make even the strongest of soldiers break some even to the point of madness. Simile is also used a lot throughout the book to describe the soldiers and the scenery. Remarque uses this device when he writes, “We fancied to be trained for heroism as though we were circus-ponies. But we soon accustom ourselves to it” (22). In this way Paul explains that they all had to romantic view of them being heros without much trouble but this is crushed pretty much once they get to camp. Second is when Remarque writes, “We are forlong like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial - I believe we are lost” (123). In this way Paul summarizes this lost generation that he and his fellow
The writers of 'Joining the Colours' and 'The Send Off' both use poetry to express their feelings about soldiers leaving for war. Each have similar attitudes about the subject, but use different approaches to try and get their message across. Both question the popular concept of war, including ideas such as heroism and glory. Katherine Hinkson, the poet who wrote 'Joining the Colours', shows the scene from two different perspectives, that of the audience watching the soldiers and also her own point of view. Wilfred Owen simply shares his thoughts by describing the soldiers leaving from a station, although the effect is no less powerful. As Hinkson is a woman, she focuses more on a mother or wives point of view, whereas Owen gives more of the soldiers perspective.
Both Stephen Crane's "Do Not Weep, Maiden, For War Is Kind" and Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" use vivid images, diction rich with connotation, similes, and metaphors to portray the irony between the idealized glory of war and the lurid reality of war. However, by looking at the different ways these elements are used in each poem, it is clear that the speakers in the two poems are soldiers who come from opposite ends of the spectrum of military ranks. One speaker is an officer and the other is a foot soldier. Each of the speakers/soldiers is dealing with the repercussions from his own realities of the horror of war based on his duty during the battle.
The use of metaphors is present throughout each of these poems. In “Funeral Blues” Auden uses metaphors to allow the readers to understand the speaker’s pain. In the first stanza the speaker starts off by giving out demands such as “stop all the clocks and cut off the telephone” (1) this can be a metaphor for the speaker’s desire for silence and isolation. And again in the second and third line of the same stanza the speaker says that she doesn’t want to be hear the barking of dogs or the playing of piano, anything that might disrupt her thoughts she wants silenced (2-3). Dickinson also uses metaphors throughout her poem, the main one being death, she writes as if death is a man. In the first line she state “Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me” (1-2) meaning she has decided to meet with him. In the second stanza she writes “We slowly drove—He knew no haste” (5) from this ...