Stephen Crane's Poem War Is Kind

The author was giving a message then at the end of the poem it changes. He was giving the message that war happens to everybody and that they will have to go to war at some point in there life. The problem is that they don’t know the bourdon that it puts on the people that he has supported and been supported by until his son is sent of. He gets a totally different feeling when he doesn’t know what could happen to his son. He gets his message across by proving that every body has something to do with war wether they like it or not. Your parents might have been to war, if not them then your uncles, cousins, friends, or your neighbors(old men). Then if it isn’t them it could be your child who is going and the feeling is different, you lose the feeling of security when you cant protect your child. He

The poem was written to show that war is a waste of human life as the soldier knows he will die one day as well as the men around him, just some quicker than others. This can be evident in stanza four of the poem: “I know I’ll join them somewhere, one day.” The language used is more casual than formative, this is effective as it shows the personal feelings and thoughts of the soldier during the time

When irony is used in a piece of literature, it is used to draw attention and cause a deflection of the readers’ expectations. Author of How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Thomas C. Foster, is trying to get readers to understand literature from a different standpoint. His ideas concerning irony can be extracted from The Great Gatsby through relationships and symbols.

In this poem, the Indian Agent creates irony when he claims that he always understands the Indians. An example would be when the Indian Agent calls the old man lazy due to the fact that he doesn’t fix the fence. In reality, the old man appreciates the fence as it is because it has fallen in such a way that it reminds him of a sentence written in an old language. From this, we learn that it’s important for people in a position of authority to try their best to understand others before they exercise power over them. When a person attempts to make someone do something that is against their values, it can make them feel misunderstood and cause them to become resentful. Another example of how the Indian Agent creates irony is when he “steps all thru the milkweed and /

To some people hearing that war may actually be kind from someone else could help people have some sort of relief from it, helping him accomplish why he wrote the poem in the first place. There is no doubt that he is opposed to war, however, he understands that some people need to at least believe that what their special someone is doing is not all that bad. It would not only help the people at home from worrying, but it could help the soldier from feeling bad for causing all the stress and worry.

Owen’s poem has the clear intention of showing the true nature of war to the reader, which is mainly achieved by contrasting reality against the ways in which war is so

War is a scandalous topic where peoples’ views differ as to what war is. Some people see it as pure evil and wicked while others think that it is brave and noble of what soldiers do. Looking at poems which had been written by people affected by war help show the messages which are portrayed. The two sets of poems which show different views of war as well as some similarities are “the Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, “To Lucasta, on Going to the Wars” by Richard Lovelace and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “The Song of the Mud” by Mary Borden. Both these poets use linguistic devices to convince the reader of their view of what the war is. Tennyson and Lovelace show how war is worthy

Authors use irony in literature in order to give double meanings and make it more interesting to the reader. In the play “ The Death of a Salesman” Arthur Miller uses irony as a strong writing technique in order to express the character's behavior. In “The Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller moments of situational and dramatic irony helps to illustrate the story's theme in which Willy is a man trying yo achieve the American dream, however he have created a world of illusion.

He talks about the Civil War like if it was not a big deal or problem. Even the own title of the poem “War is Kind” says it, in reality war is not kind, but tries to be ironic about it. In “War is Kind” a quote says “Because your father tumbled….. gulped and died, Do not weep.” (Crane 7) this is an example of irony. Phenomenally mostly everybody cries over a loved one’s death to loosen up the sadness, so it is ironic to not cry when someone dies.

As you have read war is a very different type of world everything is turned around and it confuses people. The author of the book The Things They Carried and the writer of the quote "It has been said of war that it is a world where the past has a strong grip on the present, where machines seemed sometimes to have more will power than me, where nice boys (girls) were attracted to them, where bodies ruptured and burned and stand, where the evil thing trying to kill you could look disconnecting human and where except in your imagination it was impossible to be heroic." relates to each of his stories. Wrote about war so people could have a better understanding of

Humans, the compositional idea of man itself, are lonely, shameful beasts whose only grand possession is the heart pulsing within, propelling them along. No matter how it is dishonored, how much it is scarred, and the emotional beating it takes, it is the one object Man can declare, “This is mine and because of this, it is beautiful.” In the poem, “Untitled” by Stephen Crane, he examines the lack of integrity and joyous celebration that is impurity, through simplification of what being human is.

Every day people experience ironic situations. Whether it is the bus leaving early when someone is already running late for work or an obstetrician missing a delivery because she is in labor; irony happens. Poetry is life in the form of art, and without irony, it would not be as interesting or relatable. “Irony in poetry occurs when a discrepancy exists between two levels of meaning or experience… Skillfully used, irony is a powerful way of making a pointed comment or manipulating a reader’s emotions” (445). Be it situational irony where the situation itself is opposite a reader’s expectation, verbal irony where a poet manipulates tone to say something opposite of what the words say or dramatic irony which is when the reader sees something

Poems using strong poetic technique and devices are able to create a wide range of emotions from the readers. Wilfred Owen’s poetry effectively uses these poetic techniques and devices to not only create unsettling images about war but to provide his opinion about war itself with the use of themes within his poem. The use of these themes explored Owen’s ideas on the futility of war and can be seen in the poems: Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility and The Next War. The poems provide unsettling images and belief of war through the treatment of death, barbaric nature of war and the futility of war.

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.

The poem starts with similar word choices as ‘The Soldier’ but written in the perspective of the mother. The mother tells his son that when he dies he will be in a place of ‘quietness’ and free from the ‘loss and bloodshed’. This reinforces the fact that the battlefield was full of horrors and death. The poem then moves onto how ‘men may rest themselves and dream of nought’ explaining that the soldiers do not have to fear for their lives after their death. This illustrates how they feared for their lives and had negative connotations.