The lost generationFrom sunrise to sunset, day after day, war destroys men, cities and hope. War has a unique effect on soldiers and stays with them for life. The damage done to an entire generation of men on both sides of the war was inestimable. The novel All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque and the poem "I Have a Rendezvous with Death" by Alan Seeger demonstrate the theme of a generation of men lost, mentally and physically, in war through the diction, repetition. , and personification. Diction is used heavily in both the novel and the poem to manipulate the reader's thoughts and elicit emotions. The poem sets an almost indecipherable literal tone to the sound of the rhyme scheme, also creating a calm peace in a mostly unpleasant situation. An example is the recurring phrase “I have a date with death” (Seeger 1, 5, 11, 20). The word “date” is a nice word for a person meeting someone of their own free will, like two lovers seeing each other. In another way, death is an unknown that many humans must fear. The narrator has arranged to have an experience known as death. The narrator would only take such actions if he had reason to believe that it was not as fearful an action as many think. The repetition of this phrase keeps this idea fresh in the minds of its audience. Similarly, in All Quiet on the Western Front, Remarque uses the word forgotten and misunderstood to describe the way foreigners perceive the soldiers participating in the war. Baumer says: “And men will not understand us, because the generation that grew up before us, even though they spent all these years with us, already had a home and a vocation; now he will return to his former occupations, and in the middle of paper ......and his enemy. Unlike the speaker in Seeger's poem, Paul accepts the fact that he has no control over his life when he is in the middle of a bombing. The war deprives the soldiers so much that there is nothing left to take. No longer afraid, they surrender inside, waiting for the peace that will come with death. War does not only take adolescence, it covers life with images of death and destruction. Seeger and Note demonstrate the theme of a lost generation of men in war through diction, repetition, and personification to convey to their readers that although inevitable and unpredictable, death is not something to fear, but to accept calmly and perhaps to anticipate. Men who fight in wars are excluded from society, due to a poor understanding of the impact of such a dark experience in the formative years of a man's life, thus being known as the lost generation..