War Imagery And Irony

Like love, war is full of pain and suffers. From year to year writers have been drawn to the subject of war and protest. Some writers have written to memorize battles, honor those who fight or just to glorify war itself. What tools can writers use to protest war? Writers use three techniques to achieve the protest of war. They use Imagery, Irony, and Structure. A way writers use to protest war is by using Imagery. Crane used very strong glorifying imagery. He put negative images next to the glorified images and that was his way of protesting war. “Hoarse, booming drums of the regiment” is an example of glorified images. “A field where a thousand corpses lie” is a negative image placed with a glorified image. Wilfred Owen wrote about how war is kind and that it is right to die for your country. “Men marched asleep”. “As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.” Those statements are examples of Imagery they describe the writing so people can see or at least imagine what happened to the soldiers.
A way writers use tools is by using oxymoron, as Crane uses in his short story. “War is kind”. “Point for them the virtue of slaughter.” “Dulce et Decorum Est.” , a Latin phrase of an illusion saying it’s sweet and good and hero like to die for your country. Irony helps writers see what people believe and think about the war. The writers make you believe that war isn’t that bad but they don’t give you the full details of what really happens. Sometimes writer don’t know how to say it because they don’t want to write or talk about It because it’s hard for them to actually remember what really happens in