Raw_War__The_Reality_Of_War_In_Poetry

Raw War: The Reality Of War In Poetry After the events of September 11, 2001, the United States experienced a surge of patriotism. American flags went up on every front porch, people all over the country held candlelight vigils, they cried, they had nightmares, and then the people of America sent their brothers, their sons, and their husbands off to fight. Oftentimes, people get so caught up in what they perceive to be the glory of war, they forget that the men who go pay for our sense of accomplishment with their lives. Poetry serves to remind us of that. Poetry can show us through the art of words the aspects of war that we could never begin to imagine ourselves. It does so through imagery, satire, irony, patterns of rhythm, and even sounds. War is denigrated and made more realistic through poetry. One poem in particular captures the images of war with raw, unapologetic verses filled with snapshots of war at its very worst. This poem is entitled “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and was written during World War I by Wilfred Owen. Owen would later go on to die, ironically, fighting for the British in the same war war, poem, reader, soldiers, people, through, one, die, rhythm, poetry, message, ads, using, two, train, sandburg, man, made, lines, during, death, buttons, author, across, young, written, word, very, tennyson, show, sense, satire, realistic, owen, lives