Painful realities :: English Literature:

Painful realitiesPoetry creates awareness of painful realities. This can be appreciatedin particular to war poetry where generally it is the aim of the poetto explicate people on the horrific events that take place during thebleak years on the battlefields. The painful realities are expressedthrough metaphors, similes, specific tone of talking to and mood.Furthermore, poets go for tempo, reflections and questions in theirwriting in order to express their feelings and what war is essentiallyabout.In order to study at how poetry creates awareness, four poems impart beconsidered. These areWar, Chick MartinDulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred OwenGrenade, Francis ScarfeBombardment, D H LawrenceIn the first poem, it is evident that painful realities are createdthrough the authors use of descriptive language and his ability todescribe the scenes on the battle fields and the impacts later.There is no regular structure to the poem although there is areoccurring banknote at the conclusion of ea ch stanza War is war, nothingmore. This is the basis to the poem, explaining to readers that war isas it appears. It is as the gruesome scenes of violence, death andpain. There are The erratic shorter versus emergence the intensityDulce et Decorum Est creates the realities through careful structure.After describing how the soldiers, trudged through the mud, bloodshod and drunk with fatigue, it then describes the flatulency bombs. Withclever use of metaphor, the green gas becomes a misty sea wheresoldiers drown as their lungs are burnt. Owen then concludes his poem,questioning the government, questioning Jessie Pope and questioningthe world that so ruthlessly be to young men, forcing them toenlist. He questions the old adage, dulce et decorum est pro patriamori, (it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country.)The realities are so well depicted in this poem by Owen through thechoice of punctuation and use of reflection. Exclamation marks areemployed, exemplifying the intensity of the cries of the soldiers andhow they tried to warn each other of the green sea. Owen is able to