· 'The War Prayer' is an essay written by Mark Twain about the results of war and how pride and passion for the fight have consequences that no one understands. For it is not one prayer, but two—one spoken, the other not. Listen now to the silent prayer: “O Lord our God, help us tear the enemy soldiers to bloody shreds. Help us cover their smiling fields with their patriot dead. Help us drown the thunder of guns with the shrieks of their wounded. Twain wrote "The War Prayer" to voice his opinion of the wars but it was not published until several years after his death. The Minister's Prayer: Glory "The War Prayer" describes patriotism and the happiness of the citizens who are sending their families to war. They hope for victory and celebrate with firecrackers and parades.
Note: Twain wrote The War Prayer during the Spanish-American War. It was submitted for publication, but on Ma, Harper's Bazaar rejected it as "not quite suited to a woman's magazine." Eight days later, Twain wrote to his friend Dan Beard, to whom he had read the story, "I don't think the prayer will be published in my time. Twain was a staunch opponent of American empire and publicly protested against the Philippine-American war. His short story, "The War Prayer," was submitted to the magazine Harper's Bazaar in March, The editor's rejected it. Because Twain was under contract, he couldn't submit it to anyone else. He wrote to a friend lamenting. "The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up.
"The War Prayer", a short story or prose poem by Mark Twain, is a scathing indictment of war, and particularly of blind patriotic and religious fervor as motivations for war. The structure of the work is simple: an unnamed country goes to war, and patriotic citizens attend a church service for soldiers who have been called up. The people call upon God to grant them victory and protect their troops. Suddenly, an "aged stranger" appears and announces that he is God's messenger. He explains to them. The War Prayerby Mark Twain The War Prayer. I t was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and sputtering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spreads of roofs and balconies a fluttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide. Written by Mark Twain during the Philippine-American War in the first decade of the twentieth century, The War Prayer tells of a patriotic church service held to send the town's young men off to war. During the service, a stranger enters and addresses the gathering.
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