Then the poet uses the cultivated Latin of the title, which he presumably learned in school to truly cut deep into the reader's false sensibility of war: "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest / to children ardent for some desperate glory, / the old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est / Pro patria mori." The final lines of the poem are ironic, but not just because of the stupidity of the words that it is sweet to die, choking on gas, for one's country. The irony is conveyed in a masterful fashion: Owen titles the poem with the words sweet and good, but then expands upon the title cliche with the full phrase...
Owen's use of different linguistic registers -- the initial words that give a sense of the footsteps of the solder's trudge, the officer's warning dialogue, and the use of cliches to reveal the lies of the powerful, are unique. Owen was a soldier himself, and his experience gives his ironic tone a compassion that is not purely humorous (like Alexander Pope) or merely clever and bitter (like Thomas Hardy). Of course, there is both humor and bitterness in the poem, but the irony is tinged with a truthful sense of deep sadness that elevates Owen's…
tone used by Henry James in his stories, Brooksmith and the Real Thing. The writer of this paper explores each story to determine the story's tone, in view of the total imaginative structure and how it relates the meaning of the story to the reader. There were two sources used to complete this paper. Throughout history authors have used tone to convey emotion in the stories that they write. The
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Death in "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night" "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" is one of Dylan Thomas's most recognizable poems. Written for Thomas's dying father, this poem is 19 lines and is structured like a villanelle where only two sounds are rhymed. Through the use of imagery, Thomas is able to vividly explore the theme of death and resistance to it. "Do Not Go Gentle Into
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