Jeffery Kent Powell, forty-five, and Billie Jean West, sixty-three, were two of the main victims in Jeremy Doss Hardy’s shooting incident. People from Western Oklahoma, traveling on Interstate 40 called in to the police at about midnight, stating a “possible road-rage incident”. Unfortunately, Powell’s wife was riding in the vehicle with him when he was shot and killed by Hardy’s bullet. Roughly nine miles where Powell ended after being shot, police discovered another vehicle on the shoulder of the exact same road. That’s where they found West, and her later being pronounced dead at the local hospital in Weatherford.
James Riddle was born on 14th February 1913 in Brazil. He was the second born in a family of four children and was an athlete. He started working full time while still a teenager in a department store as a stock boy after quitting school at the ninth grade. In 1930, he started working in a warehouse as a freight handler. This provided a platform for his career.
In the poem Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind by Stephen Crane, Stephen talks about the aspects of war and the effects it has on people outside of the war. Another poem called the sonnet-ballad by Gwendolyn Brooks, talks about a woman who has just lost her lover do to the war and is asking her mother where happiness is. In both texts, the authors focus on the negative and how cruel war really is. Although the authors focus the the horrific parts of war, Brooks sees beauty in war and how tempting it is. However, Crane only focuses the dreadful and grim parts of war.
Hunter S. Thompson was born in Louisville, Kentucky on July 18, 1937. His family was middle class and when Thompson turned 6 they moved to an affluent neighborhood in the Highlands. When he was 14 however on July 3, 1952, his beloved father died of myasthenia gravis. Virginia (Thompson's mother) had to raise him and his siblings by herself, Thompson says she became a heavy drinker after his fathers death. (American National Biography, 2014)
Both Ted Hughes and Wilfred Owen present war in their poems “Bayonet Charge” and “Exposure”, respectively, as terrifying experiences, repeatedly mentioning the honest pointlessness of the entire ordeal to enhance the futility of the soldiers' deaths. Hughes’ “Bayonet Charge” focuses on one person's emotional struggle with their actions, displaying the disorientating and dehumanising qualities of war. Owen’s “Exposure”, on the other hand, depicts the impacts of war on the protagonists' nation, displaying the monotonous and unending futility of the situation by depicting the fate of soldiers who perished from hypothermia, exposed to the horrific conditions of open trench warfare before dawn. The use of third-person singular pronouns in “Bayonet
Edward Vi was born on October 12, 1537. His Mother Jane Seymour and his Father Henry VIII Tudor. That wasn 't Henry 's first lady, that was his third wife. Jane Seymour was Henry 's third wife after having 2 more wives. Henry had to divorce both of them because they couldn 't provide a baby.
Shot 1: Cut to a straight on, medium long shot of the execution squad, Hardy and Bredow sitting in a car. The camera appears to be placed on the dashboard, so that the front left of the frame contains the steering wheel and the car’s interior makes up the rest of the frame. Bredow sits on the left side of the frame behind the wheel, while Hardy is on the right side in the back seat of the car. It is evident that the car is moving from the sections of light and shadow that move across the characters faces and are casted on the walls of the interior. We hear the loud, mechanical sound of the car engine, over which Hardy says “Faster” as he commands Bredow to speed up his pursuit of the other car.
One of the things that happened in World War I that changed poets opinion on war was the mass death that occurred in the war. In total the casualties add up to about 37 million. That is more than half of the soldiers that were mobilized. The total number of deaths shows how much pain there was for so many people when they found their loved ones to be dead. That had to impact a lot of people all over and poets must've seen how badly War had hurt not only soldiers but everyone.
Comparative Essay How can different perceptions about one topic be expressed in poetry? The main theme that the two sets of poems convey is war, but it’s expressed in different point of views through the use of diction that builds tone. The tones of these poems play a big role in conveying the differences between the different eras that these poems are written in, and shows how societies have changed from the Victorian era till the time of World War I. The diction and tone in Borden and Owen’s poems is so much different than the diction and tone in Lovelace and Tennyson’s poems due to different perspectives and point of views. In all four poems the main idea is war, but each set conveys a perspective of war, a positive perspective
Victor Marie Hugo, born February 26, 1802 in Besancon, France, is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers of the Romantic movement of the nineteenth century. Victor Hugo was an accomplished poet, novelist, and artist as showcased in his literary and painted works. His fame was secured by his poems, with his universal novels; Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris (The Hunchback of Notre-Dame), heightening his renown. Between the years of 1823 and roughly 1874 Victor Hugo wrote eight novels with Les Miserables (published 1862) and Notre-Dame de Paris (English: The Hunchback of Notre Dame) (published 1831) universally acknowledged as his two world-renowned works.
French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement, Victor Hugo, created an advanced collection of poems relating to death, love, nature, and other aspects of life. Born in 1802, in Besançon, France, Victor Hugo grew up in Paris, France with his mother and two brothers. He had an admiration for Napoleon and often addressed many poems to the glory of this historical figure. Hugo’s literary achievement was recognized in 1841 by his election to the French Academy, a prestigious council for matters pertaining to the French language. Not only was he involved in literature, but he was also interested in politics; during the Revolution of 1848, Hugo was elected deputy for Paris in the Constituent Assembly and later in the Legislative Assembly.
“The Ruined Maid” by Thomas Hardy is a satirical poem which uses closed form and anapestic lines to emphasize the importance of complying with society’s ideals while the tone and meaning oppose conforming to society. The closed form and anapestic lines within “The Ruined Maid” follow the guidelines of their forms closely, creating a feeling of submission to rules. Hardy uses a rhyme scheme of AABB, from which he never falters. This relates to how one might behave if they follow all of the society 's ideals; never veering from the given standards.
In the poems “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and “The Bright Lights of Sarajevo” by Tony Harrison, both poems present the truths of war. However, both differ in terms of setting and contrast that help depicts the similarities between their theme. Disabled takes place within World War I as Owen vividly describes the subject’s amputation, but the poem is centered around the subject’s adjustment to civilian life after war. In The Bright Lights of Sarajevo although Harrison discusses the consequences of partaking in war in the town, he illustrates the way in which life goes on regardless the horrific impact. Through use of setting and contrast, both poets contribute to presenting the theme of the realities of war.
.Most poetry of this genre is based around the topic of World War One and World War Two. But also around other famous wars in history such as the American Civil War and Troubles in Northern Ireland. This poetry contains messages of hatred towards war and towards the idea of war. This section includes poetry of very famous poets who not only were alive during the war but some of whom also
Many poems about the civil war convey universal themes of the time. Stephen Crane’s poem “War is Kind” is no different. The poem,“War is kind” written by Stephen Crane(1871-1900) has three themes common to civil war literature: Warfare, Home, and Patriotism. This poem’s overall theme is about how war destroys families conversely to the title of “War is Kind” or the many times which Crane says “War is Kind”.
