Dulce Est Decorum Est and This Is the Dark Time, My Love

Neither fame nor glory can compensate for the immense anguish that war inflicts on humanity. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori is an old lie told to y give awayhs ardent of joining the army. Not only ar the targeted victims oppressed, but the soldiers who stake their lives fighting for their countries be left horrified. In twain Dulce et Decorum Est and This is A Dark Time, My revel, the inner(a) experiences of the personas give first-hand insights of the terrors and tortures of war. Imagery, pathetic fallacy and language vividly create the ghastly image of war. This is The Dark Time, My Love is almost a pot whose dreams of a better life contrive been threatened by the annihilative power of the strange invaders. The persona conveys his extreme anger against the British military presence and his belief that their master is wrong and they display total injustice. Additionally, the persona accentuates the subjection, devastation, death and anger of the tribe of Guyana. It focuses on the dark clip that the people be facing that the experience of the war where all around the land brown beetles go about. Everywhere the faces of men are strained and anxious tell of the fear and tension that the victims feel. heretofore nature is sympathetic as red flowers bend their heads in awful sorrow. The poet laments of the visitation of his people, the instability of his people and the sorrow brought by these strange invaders. In Dulce et Decorum Est, a soldier vividly describes the horrors of war as he hopelessly watches bingle of his comrades being gassed. Returning from the battle-field, bent double, coughing and limping with blood-shod feet, they had not perceive the gas-filled shells being dropped.Luckily, most of the soldiers managed to escape, but unfortunately one of his comrades did not. As the persona recounts the traumatic experience, he lashes out at all who thinks that it is glorious and honourable to die for ones country. The impact of t he incident on the persona is one of loathing and revulsion. Both poets use imagery which is striking and graphic to inform us of the terrors of war. In This is The Dark Time, My Love, the visual image of the soldiers, all around the land brown beetles cower about, in their thick armoury is homogeneous the beetles who have hard shells on their backs. All around and funk creates the image that they move around in large uniform masses, just like beetles. The word crawl also presents the image of the soldiers moving sneakily and invading the land with stealth. Who comes straiting in the dark shadow metre? / Whose boot of steel tramps down the slender grass creates the visual image of the soldiers, who can walk through the dark night fearlessly, unaffected by the dark times. An auditory image is also created as the tramping of the soldiers can be heard as they walk on the unthreatening, impotent grass.Imagery in this poetry is apply to describe the ways in which war oppresses in nocent victims, whereas in Dulce et Decorum Est, similes are used to create images of the struggles soldiers face on the theater. The simile, bent double, like old beggars under sacks, is vivid as one can actually picture the soldiers drunk with fatigue and trying to make their way back to camp. They are hopeless and tired and though fighting for ones country is said to be honourable, they are being compared to beggars. This line contrasts with the title of the poem.Both the visual and auditory image of the knock-kneed soldiers coughing like hags shows the choking effect of the smell of the gas. Their coughing sounds like that of an old, tired person, which they in fact are. They cannot breathe and being compared to hags emasculates the soldiers. Pathetic fallacy is used in This is the Dark Time, My Love since even nature was in a state of sadness at the oppression of the society. This is seen by the personifications, The shining temperateness is hidden in the throw out/Red flower s bend their heads in awful sorrow. The flowers appear to mourn the people in the dark time who are victims of the violence of the soldiers and the suppression by the colonial powers. It seems as if the wilting flowers, whose stems are usually drooping, are actually bending their heads in reason with those who have to live through the dark times. The shining sun represents hope and prosperity. It is unable to penetrate through the dark times where the people are hopeless and in despair.The sun being hidden in the sky reflects that there is no hope for the society. The emotive and intense language used in Dulce et Decorum Est tells of the anger, revulsion and disgust the persona feels about being while of the war. He plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning, white eyes writhing in his face and blood come gargling from his froth-corrupted lungs evokes sympathy in the reader. The soldiers comrade did not die instantly from inhalation of the gas, he suffered forrader he died.In all the personas smothering dreams, he never thought he would experience anything like that. Like a the Tempters sick of sin compares war to the devil who offers no good and will never be sick of sin. War only offers pain and suffering and it is as if those who declare war are in fact devils. This is The Dark Time, My Love and Dulce et Decorum Est both aim to convey the universal message that the stereotypical assumptions about war and fighting for ones country are lies. Both poems tell of the atrocities of war and that war affects everyone.In Dulce et Decorum Est, the persona remarks that the battlefield is a horrifying experience and that many are scared for life and left feeling at sea and hopeless. The main comment the persona is trying to make is that dying for ones country is neither noble nor honourable as people claim it to be and those anxious for glory should not bribe into this belief. It emphasizes how much they had to suffer and the message received is that war is not w orth the trauma and agony they have to lose.In This is The dark Time, My Love, the persona indicates that war is so dehumanising that even nature makes a statement as pathetic fallacy. The persona also refers to war as the season of oppression . . and tears. This alludes to the hostility and brutality to which the Guyanese are subjected and their suffering as a result. It goes on to say that it is a festival of guns and Carnival of misery showing that violence is so rampant, it seems to be a celebration.War imposes itself on the nations gloss and robs the nation of its independence and dreams aiming at your dream. War wreaks severe pain and distress on both soldiers and innocent, targeted people and this brings about the question whether war is really worth the suffering. Those who declare war do not endure the suffering and thus, preach that it is glorious to die for ones country. However, as the both personas prove, it is no honour and certainly, no nobility to die for ones co untry