HUM 108

The poem I chose to give an explanation for is, “War Is Never Over” by Cecil L. Harrison. I think that the title for this poem is very important because it says what the poem is going to be about. Every stanza’s first line from the poem begins with, “War is never over” and each gives a different explanation to back it up. In the first stanza Cecil explained that even though a war is over physically the soldiers who fought in it will keep the memories and never forget what they experienced. In the second stanza Cecil explained that even though soldiers go home to remember that their memory will always have war in it. In the third stanza Cecil brings back the veterans who fought in the Vietnam war and she explains that those are the soldiers who really know that war is never over mentally and when they see other wars it just gives them flashbacks of the terrible experience they went through themselves. In the fourth stanza Cecil puts himself into the poem explaining that he exper

The film that I chose for Expressionism was, “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. I chose this film because it is one of the most famous German Expressionist film. “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” was filmed in the 1920s and it was directed by Robert Wiene. The film is about a psychological unstable hypnotist who hypnotizes people just to murder them while they are hypnotized. Since this film was written after WWI it tells about the experiences of Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. The film is a metaphor and Dr. Caligari is the hypnotist who represents the German government and the man that Dr. Caligari hypnotizes represents the civilians who were under the power of the government during the war. The theme of the film could have been to show the dark ways that the civilians were brainwashed by the government and ended up dead. This film shows Expressionism psychologically and physically. The film is psychologically mysterious and expressed different view point when it came down to seeing it in the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUpcyM-EK7Y&vl=en When I saw Guernica for the first time my first reaction was, “what is going on here?” To me it seemed like too much. There were people everywhere, some on the floor and others suffering. I was trying to figure out what the chaos was all about. Guernica makes me feel pain because all of the people are suffering. The pain that the people were feeling translated to me. The lady on the left side is crying while holding her dead baby, there is a dead man on the bottom of the painting who looks as if he had a painful death, and the person to the right looks as if he/she is screaming and crying in front of a burning building. The atmosphere of the painting seems to be both indoors and outdoors. The left side is indoors because there is a kitchen table in the background and the right side seems to be outdoors because there are buildings in the background. It is a very negative and sad atmosphere. Other than the suffering people I al