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Rhetoric is defined as the art or study of using language effectively and persuasively. In a poem or short story it would be easy to see how rhetoric would be necessary to provide stimulation to enthrall the readers senses. Rhetoric can be an awesome tool in a writer’s arsenal of literary weapons. After all the whole point of writing is to communicate and either make the reader understand what you are trying to say or let the reader enjoy and interpret the words you have placed in front of their face. If someone were to write a piece of literature with out using any form of rhetoric, that piece of writing would be lacking interest and any form of appeal.
In “ War is Kind” the author Stephen Crane uses his own individual form of rhetoric to keep the reader tuned in to his poem. Even though the poem is quite short the author uses his words so well and he pulls on the heartstrings of his reader just enough to invoke a sort of emotional connection to the theme and idea behind the point of “War is Kind”. This emotional attachment that Stephen Crane creates is very closely related to rhetoric and the emotional appeal that he uses in the poem. This just shows how very important the use of rhetoric is in a piece of writing and that it can cause the literature to become more than just words. If the rhetoric is used correctly it can make a writers work that much more enjoyable and important.
In “War is Kind” the story behind the poem is that the narrator is talking to a woman. What he is saying is that the man that she loves has thrown caution to the wind and had gone off to war. The statement that war is kind is a type of rhetoric in its self. It is a little ironic and implies that the very horrid and sadistic activity such as war has a lighter more fluffy side like ah happy bunny hopping through the magic forest. With this implication that war isn’t what it is comes some very witty and creative writing that that disproves his statement.
The general pattern of “War is Kind” is the narrator tells the woman that war is kind and follows with statements such as “Raged at his breast, gulped and died”. These statements cause an emotional bridge to form between the reader and the words on the piece of paper. The effective use of words to affect someone is almost the exact definition of rhetoric. It is easy to see that the rhetoric that Stephen Crane use in “War is Kind” is very closely related in the way that his piece of work effects the emotional and moral feelings of his audience.
In “ War is Kind” the author Stephen Crane uses his own individual form of rhetoric to keep the reader tuned in to his poem. Even though the poem is quite short the author uses his words so well and he pulls on the heartstrings of his reader just enough to invoke a sort of emotional connection to the theme and idea behind the point of “War is Kind”. This emotional attachment that Stephen Crane creates is very closely related to rhetoric and the emotional appeal that he uses in the poem. This just shows how very important the use of rhetoric is in a piece of writing and that it can cause the literature to become more than just words. If the rhetoric is used correctly it can make a writers work that much more enjoyable and important.
In “War is Kind” the story behind the poem is that the narrator is talking to a woman. What he is saying is that the man that she loves has thrown caution to the wind and had gone off to war. The statement that war is kind is a type of rhetoric in its self. It is a little ironic and implies that the very horrid and sadistic activity such as war has a lighter more fluffy side like ah happy bunny hopping through the magic forest. With this implication that war isn’t what it is comes some very witty and creative writing that that disproves his statement.
The general pattern of “War is Kind” is the narrator tells the woman that war is kind and follows with statements such as “Raged at his breast, gulped and died”. These statements cause an emotional bridge to form between the reader and the words on the piece of paper. The effective use of words to affect someone is almost the exact definition of rhetoric. It is easy to see that the rhetoric that Stephen Crane use in “War is Kind” is very closely related in the way that his piece of work effects the emotional and moral feelings of his audience.