Vinod+Raman+RP+Post+3

1) What effect does warfare have on the human mind? 2)Agony 3) Mark R. Slaughter 4)http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/agony-11/ 5) I accessed the website at my home at 8:55 A.M on 5/25/14 6) 7) A war veteran, Mark Slaughter, recounts the death of his brother through specific detail in order to reflect his agony toward war. He culminates the emotional description of his brother's death and the unanswerable question of his mothers dirge in saying that war has made a sorry nation. 8) The vagueness of war only to serves to degrade the very character of a nation 9) I was strongly persuaded by the author's treatment of the topic. His use of a personal experience dissipated any doubt as it was clear that he knew what he was talking about. This kind of effect was further achieved through the emotional description of his brother's death. 10)  " I lost my arm, a leg; the head/Of once my brother fell to me."
 * Source #2**
 * S**peaker: Slaughter, War Veterans, Soldiers
 * O**ccassion: Experience through warfare, Seeing the death of his brother
 * A**udience: War veterans,
 * P**urpose: highlight the never ending state of warfare and war in our world, point out the fact that war makes only a "sorry nation."
 * S**ubject: War, Death,
 * Tone:** Morose, solemn, indignant

"I caught it with a scream caressed with /Bowels, anointed with our blood – /Arterial – of crimson zest –/Ethereal in oxygenation."

"My mother whined a haunting dirge/Of ‘Why? ’ and ‘Will this never end?"

"I answered with my bluing lips/And gurgles of antiphony."

"Dying in our agony, /We make a sorry nation."

1) 2) My Lai, Vietnam 3) Curtis D. Bennet 4) http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/2012war_poetry.html 5) I accessed this website at 9:23 A.M. on 5/25/14 6) 7) Curtis D. Bennet in his poem My Lai describes the innocent murder of civilians at My Lai during the Vietnam war in order to emphasize the cruelty of war itself. Bennet refrains from directly criticizing the American general responsible but instead condemns the war effort of teaching the "all-American kids" to brutally kill. 8) War turns what is innocent into criminals, murderers. 9) I was largely persuaded by the author's treatment of the topic. His use of emphatic and emotional language and clear knowledge of what happened bolstered his attempt to show the immorality and cruelty of the My Lai Massacre. 10) "Were they “Following Orders” as all soldiers claim? /Or were they scared, simply afraid and overreacted?"
 * Source 3#**
 * S**ubject: My Lai massacre, Vietnam War, World War II
 * O**ccasion: After American troops stormed the city of My Lai and massacred thousands of innocent civilians
 * A**udience: American generals/commanders, American writers, Newspaper readers
 * P**urpose: To emphasize the cruelty and immorality of war
 * S**peaker: Curtis D. Bennet, anti-war propogandists
 * Tone:** disappointing, indignant,morose

"Just the day before, they were our all-American kids, /Who a year ago, were attending local high schools,/Perhaps a bit rowdy, raucous, carefree teenagers,/American children, so carefully taught...to brutally kill,/Now, became murderers; hard, wanton criminals;"'

"In the course of that one simple, single day of war,/ The day the soldiers came to town."

"Gripped by and succumbing to a fearful, primeval frenzy,/ Reverting instantly back to their dormant, Neanderthal DNA,/As they casually, mercilessly, slaughtered human beings,/The day the soldiers, came to town."