The Use Of Irony In Stephen Crane's War Is Kind

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One element that helps the writer emphasize his main idea is called irony. Irony often reveals an issue or problem that the author thinks is worthy of notice and often implies the author’s opinion. Stephen Crane successfully adapted this element into his poem, “War Is Kind”. The element can be first seen in the first stanza when the writer states that “war is kind”(5), which is not the case. War is the complete opposite. Crane uses repetition to emphasize in this irony. Later in the poem, he uses imagery to support his message: “a field where a thousand corpses lie”(11,23). Using irony, Crane effectively contrasts imagination to reality. Another writer that effectively demonstrated irony is Amy Lowell in her poem “Patterns”. Lowell uses imagery
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