How Does Robert Graves Use Figurative Language In The Next War

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Robert Graves’ poem, “The Next War,” is heavily influenced by his time during The Great War, and it take a bitter approach rather than the rouses of a noble and heroic battle, the kind of stories which young boys dream and play at with improvised weapons and armor. While Robert doesn’t use figurative language to convey his ideas within the poem, he uses imagery and a bit of symbolism to express his own emotions concerning the war, as well as pushing past the conventionally romanticized versions that poets usually used to convey the period of war. The title alone is a symbol of the personal struggle he faced during his lifetime, in which he received a serious injury. This injury prompted a letter of condolence to be sent by the government (Gale Contextual 738-742). The letter describes him, like many others in any war, as a gallant person of courage which tends to make young, ignorant boys idealize them and march off to war themselves. …show more content…
The image alone shows just a small portion of what he saw and into the mentality he had when he first joined himself or at the very least the struggle he himself
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