Explore How Conflict Effects Those Not Fighting in the Conflict Poems

In The Falling Leaves and Poppies, correspond the effects encounter has on those non fighting. In Poppies by Jane Weir and The Falling Leaves by Marg art Postgate Cole some(prenominal) poets use a variety of methods to enter effects conflict has on those not fighting. Use of building and language is important in presenting these effects. This sample will explore both poems to try the effects of different methods as implemented by the poets. The structure used in the poems a dogged with similes and metaphors to describe the sol break offrs in both poems give a sad, solemn tone, to acquaint how the poet was effected by conflict.The use of enjambement in The Falling Leaves gives the sense of long pauses and broken thoughts and whims of the poet masking that it saddens the poet to think of hundreds of soldiers losing their lives in war. In Poppies, All my words flattened, rolled, rancid into felt, slowly melting. , is used to show that the savor of her watchword leaving to fight in a war was hard to excuse and that the words meant nothing as the sense was too strong to explain in words. The emotion of the poet is clearly described in both poems. I resisted the impulse and I was brave, as I walked with you. Both quotes from Poppies show that although the poet felt upset that her son was freeing to war, and that she felt he was too young, she allowed her son to do as he hopeed. This shows realization that he had grown up, that it wasnt her ending to allow him to go and that she didnt want to upset him by showing how she in truth felt. In The Falling Leaves, the poet describes her emotion through the weather. like snowflakes wiping out the noon this shows that she was feeling saddened and upset from what she had seen.Both poems describe the soldiers as innocent. For example, in Poppies, the poets memories of her son were all those of his youth, showing that he was still an innocent child. In The Falling Leaves soldiers are compared to graceful, wh ite snowflakes. akin snowflakes falling on the Flemish dust. White is purity, cleanliness, and innocence. This may be emphasising the composition that all soldiers were still children that needed pleader from their parents and were naive and were only killed as they had curt guidance.This sentiment of innocence could show that the involve on those not fighting was practically larger because the soldiers did not deserve to die in the eyes of the poets. However, the soldiers are as well as described as brown leaves move from their tree. This may give the motion-picture show that those fighting were not important, just as leaves arent important to a tree. The idea of the brown leaves may mean that they had finish their service and were no longer reclaimable but that it was not an issue as new soldiers would replace them.The amount of expiration is recognised in The Falling Leaves, the soldiers are described as a jaunty multitude, generalising huge number of deadened sol diers as one unit. This lessens the portrayed heartache of those not fighting by make all soldiers faceless and identical. Whereas in Poppies, it is frequently more personalised, this creates a feeling of ruefulness and shows that the poet thinks it may be harder to cope with the prejudice of those in war than is portrayed in The Falling Leaves.