Love & War Poems.

I wanna be yours is similar to Valentine as it again uses bizarre examples to show his love for her, although it does have a very strong rhythm and is extremely optimistic and makes me laugh just like Valentine it is silly but has meaning to it.

I am very bothered is also a love poem, but does not use the same techniques as the other two love poems do. This poem shows a lot of regret and the person seems very depressed but he loved this girl so much and wanted to be with her for the rest of his life. Its extremely passionate and has a slight background rhythm to it.

However the next three poems 'The Soldier' 'Suicide In The Trenches' and 'Dulce et Decorum est' are all war poems.

The Soldier was written before world war 1 started and Rupert Brooke the author of this poem had not experienced the dreadful war. It makes me think a lot, I had looked at this poem before in History. I think it has a slight bit of rhythm but only because it rhymes.

Suicide in the trenches is much different to The Soldier as this poem was written whilst experiencing world war 1, it is very sad and Siegfried Sassoon has shown a lot of anger in this poem it says "You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye, who cheer when soldier lads march by" this is probably why he's angry because he is mad at the people back in England as they don't realise what the soldiers went through, it's a very regretful poem, and has quite a powerful rhythm. Dulce et Decorum est is the longest poem out of all six poems, and explains a lot about what went on in the war, showing a lot of sadness, and anger however out of all three war poems this particular one makes me think deeper than all the rest as you read line after line. I found that it makes you feel as if you know exactly what it was like but you don't know what its like at all. Wilfred Owen must have lost many of his friends in the war and he tells the story of how and when he lost them in the poem.

Overall my favourite poem is probably Dulce et Decorum est because as well as a poem it tells a story of what the war was like and proves how awful it must have been.

By Eleanor Wallbank 9DMG.