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Sebastian Faulk's birdsong and Wilfred owen's poetry are said to deal with the "pity of war" but i'm not really sure what the phrase means????????????

2007-02-13 00:07:17 · 3 answers · asked by sonian1 2 in Society & Culture Languages

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Could it mean it's a pity we have to have wars!

2007-02-13 00:15:17 · answer #1 · answered by Gerry 7 · 0 0

Use a court case as an example. Find a case where someone murdered someone, we all know they did it, but they got "off the hook" (and don't have to be punished) because of a silly little reason that shouldn't matter because the proof is SO obvious. Like, when someone gets off of a murder charge because the cop forgets to read him his rights. Or because a cop didn't get a search warrant to search the premesis. That should be self explanitory. Then, when the kid learns to use the phrase, you'll catch him or her doing something like, eating cookies before dinner, and they will say "you should let me off on a technicality because I thought you were in the other room".

2016-05-24 04:56:30 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It means the war, is often entirely unavoidable. Yet, we send many young men to their death for no reason. While people use words like "security" "911" and "patriotism" young men are dying horrid violent deaths in a country away from home. Young men are killing and causing horrid violent deaths in a country away from home.

THAT is the pity of war.

Wilfred Owen was one of the first poets to actually tell it like it was instead of how "glorious" dying for one's country is.

Something that now the majority of Americans are beginning to understand.

Over 50 000 dead...

2007-02-13 00:21:03 · answer #3 · answered by Lady M 2 · 0 0

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