In the midst of my flight over the sea, a gust of wind swept me into something startling and upsetting. I found myself flying over a cold, rugged landscape where I see lots of stone-faced men marching in lines toward some kind of destination. Perhaps they are going on a long, dangerous journey. Maybe I… View More

The Albatross

Countries that go to war can definitely be considered evil. There is evil in hearts all over the world that is why there is war. It is impossible to carry on about the daily lives in separate countries and everyone just get along. That is the ideal outlook, but unfortunately it cannot be true. Instead,… View More

It is truly disheartening. Men who sacrifice their lives being treated so poorly. Can you even imagine coming home after losing everything in the war and being treated so poorly? The poor man in this poem is having a hard enough time on his own; he doesn’t need the poor treatment. We immediately see how… View More

Oh Captain, my captain! So sad this story, the poor men who go to war to fight for their country are treated as nothing but mere dirt on your shoe. The men who give up their lives, their families, their safety, all for ungrateful people who do not know what sacrifice really is. The poems… View More

Ah, I do say that you are right in the fact that we cannot change the course of events. I do believe that your wife may soon come to find out that women are just as equal to men; I know that my wife sure thinks so. Though behind closed doors it is very easy… View More

I seem to have stumbled across a few readings someone left laying around. Anthem for Doomed Youth is one of the titles I have read. I dabble in writing here and there when I write about my endeavors with Holmes, but this gentleman, Wilfred Owen, writes much more eloquent than I do. His story within… View More

The texts that I read this past week were odd to say the least.  The world these people must have inhabited seems much different than one that I am accustom to. In my judgment from reading the feminist works and those of the soldiers we gain a sense that mankind is troubled. What I found… View More

I was particularly shocked by the unfortunate fate of the soldier in ” Disabled”. As a captain, I believe that every crew member is entitled to honor for the sacrifices made and risks taken. How can one who served such a noble cause be reduced to a mere object of ridicule, to be forgotten like… View More

I must agree with you my dear Celia on the reading “Disabled”…it was rather disheartening, how could women call themselves nurses and not care for the fellow human being? This man was a soldier, and this is how he is treated? It is not professional at all if you were to ask me! These men… View More