How does Stephen Crane use situational irony to heighten the impact of his poem "War is Kind"?
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How does Stephen Crane use situational irony to heighten the impact of his poem "War is Kind"?
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I think that verbal irony is more relevant to a discussion of this excellent poem, as really, in giving the poem the title "War is Kind" Crane is saying exactly the opposite. I suppose situational irony could be relevant if we think about the expectations that the title gives us and the way that the poem then defies every single one of those expectations, ironically presenting war in all of its horror and terror. Perhaps this shift from the expectations of the title to the true subject of the poem is most evident in the second stanza:
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