Dulce et Decorum est actually means it is good and proper to die for ones country. This title is meant to be sarcasm he uses sarcasm to emphasise that was is a terrible thing and that there is no point in going to war.
Anthem is a religious song and doomed means that you are not dead but are going to be soon and youth is the young of the country so the title actually means A song for the death of the young. He uses this title to show what he feels the war is doing to the youths of our country.
Both poems are about war and what can happen in war and the tragedies that come with it. Dulce et Decorum est is about the death of a man caused by a gas attack. In the poem he uses words that made you believe that the soldiers were terrified by gas attacks. He uses such phrases as ‘an ecstasy of fumbling’ and ‘floundering like a man in fire or lime’.
Anthem for Doomed Youth is describing what is going to happen to happen to people after there dead. It says that people in the war do not get a proper funeral and although it does not use phrases that make you believe things but it does use some onomatopoeias.
Anthem for doomed youth is a sonnet. I knew it is a sonnet because it is 14 lines long. Sonnets are usually used ion poems about love he might be doing this to use it as a contrast. Dulce et Decorum est is written in iambic feet.
In Dulce et Decorum he uses a caesura this is to make you stop and think but in Anthem for doomed youth it flows. He uses a lot more things to the flow and language such as caesuras and exaggerations and general changes of pace in the way its meant to be read this is a lot different from the way that the Anthem for Doomed youth is meant to be read. In this poem Owen does not use many metaphors this could be because he was trying to get his point across to heighten the reality.
Both poems draw horrific pictures in your head but apart from the subject which is war the poems are quite different. I have discussed style, language, rhythm and others and all differ from each poem.
