How do writers articulate their feelings to war?

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How do writers articulate their feelings to war?

We indeed know that people during both of the wars seen and committed terrible things to their fellow man. It is also said that what the people at home, away from the fighting, also felt some harsh emotions. Whether their son, father or relative would get back in one piece. These emotions were very hard to deal with and people dealt with them in different ways. Some talked to friends while other preyed. Some writ their emotions down on paper and gave us some of the most emotional and stunning pieces of writing ever and this is what I’m going to study.

        An ideal piece that coincides with my statement above is the later cenotaph written by Ursula Roberts. The poem is set in a busy high street and is from the perspective of a woman sitting in a bus, seeing out of the window. The poem is written in free verse and involves a great deal of dialect to add personality to the poem. We can clearly see her view toward the death's war has provided in line 17 when she comments “I wouldn’t’.” Roberts is writing here about maybe an incident she saw on a bus or maybe her own view, that we do not know. But what is very clear throughout all of the poems is that no one agrees with the extreme violence carried out for good reason.

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Mary Hershel-Clarke writ her feelings how death was so commonplace at that time, that papers didn’t report on it anymore. This was completely wrong in Herscel-Clarkes point of view who clearly valued life greatly. We see her view in the short but moving poem “Nothing to report”. Although only 3 lines long she transfers her view to the reader very easily by being very matter of fact. Also to make sure the poem recollects to you, she adds a very basic rhyme scheme in that the last word of every line rhymes with the previous. Above all the poem is ...

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