Some Sides of the War
In the world history of wars, some people may define some wars “good war” and some
people say that all wars are “bad wars.” One thing for sure is that war brings destruction,
death, and desolation anywhere it goes. We have lost billions of innocent lives during the
wars in course of our history. There are many poets that talk about the effects that a war
could have on the singular person and not on the grand scale of the world. For example
Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” interpreted by Elliott B. Gose, Jr., Alfred Lord
Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade” interpreted by Dickinson, Brian Turner’s
“Jundee Ameriki,” and Thomas Hardy “Drummer Hodge” is all examples of death,
desolation, and suffering those wars can bring to the people of the world. Even some
movies, like “Into the White” directed by Petter Naess and revied by Simon Brookfield,
portraits wars pretty good showing you what wars do to people.
Many poems and movies especially show you and make you sense the thousands of death
that war causes. In fact in Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” the poem talks about a
soldier escaping from the battlefield and ends up in a tunnel just to find a dead talking
soldier. The meeting occurs in a kind of strange way and kind of ambiguous says Elliott B.
Gose, Jr.When the writer talks about the first encounter he says “Then, as I probed them,
one sprang up, and stared” and Simons mentions that using the verb “probed” it creates an
atmosphere of ambiguities. In Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “The Charge of the Light Brigade”
the writer talks about a brigade of six-hundred men sent to a suicide mission. The mission
was to break through an enemy defensive line and they knew that all six-hundred soldiers
would lose their lives in the battle ending up in a loss. In fact even the troops knew that
they were advancing to their death, in fact in the poem the writers writes “Their not to
make reply Theirs not to reason why Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.” (Alfred Lord Tennyson). Even Dickinson mentions that their death
won’t be in vain but “The glory, if there will be any, will be not on this earth but in the
haven, when the sorely tired yet inwardly victorious soul joins the white-plumed angels in
