Flying the flag in Bosnia Analysis

1. The writer uses “Her face is hidden byher hands, but the hands are enough” to show us how sad the woman is over herson’s death, and that even the gravedigger showed sympathy by “a full cup ofcoffe, left by the grave digger” and that the woman is pitiful, as shown in herappearance, “An old woman Whose hair is parted Straight down the middle.” Thismakes the readers feel sorry for the mother as she mourns over her son’s death.

2. On her son’s grave, there was a shirt that was like a flag signifies deathon the person, so when the poem says “In a country which already has too many.”This means that many people had already died due to war, so the poet wants tosignify the country’s suffering and misery from the war, due to the many deaths, and the message is that war brings about sadness and death, so it is bad.

Dulce et Decorum Est Analysis

1. The literal meaning is that the soldiers were carrying bags so heavy that their backs were bent, similar to beggars with heavy sacks on their backs. However, the implied meaning of this is to destroy people’s mindset of young brave soldiers fighting for their country. The reality was that the soldiers were very weak and suffering a lot from the war.
2. The writer uses sound devices like “GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!” to increase the tension as there is an element of danger. He uses similes like “And floundering like a man in fire or lime” to show us how horrifying war was, and the writer uses contrast between the phrases Quick, boys! , ecstasy of fumbling , and clumsy helmets recalls the young age of the inexperienced comrades, and the pitted landscape “Dim through the misty panes and thick green light.”
3. At the end of the poem, the writer says “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est’ in which the latin phrase means dying for your country is beautiful and sweet” but in reality, the writer wanted to warn against the so-called glories of war marketed to their paradoxically juvenile audience. The message he wanted to get across was War is not worth it, as Owen proves with the lie perpetuated across the world: Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country. I agree with it, because, war is meaningless because it only brings about death and suffering, therefore, dying for your country is not sweet, as shown in the poem, death can be inhumane and cruel.