Dulce et Decorum Est
(It is good and fitting to die for your country.)
Wilfred Owen was a soldier in the First World War; he saw at first hand what was happening and it made him wonder about the cause he was fighting for. The war inspired some of the best war poetry in the world.
I think that Wilfred Owen was incredibly descriptive in what he wrote and his use of similes and metaphors were very good. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est which is describing a trope of men returning from the front line tired, and then coming under a gas attack.
In the description of the men he uses a metaphor to describe the men, "Bent double, like old beggars under sack" which gives a very vivid picture of what the men look like. I see the men leaning forward in raged old clothing with dirty faces and hand, their clothes have holes in them and they are blood stained.
He then goes on to describe the way they are walking and the language they are using. "Knock-kneed, coughing like old hags, we cursed through sludge" this make the men seem like they are at deaths gates, ready to collapse at any minute and hating every minute that they have to be alive in this place. This is also shown in the language that is used by the men, cursing about their situation. But the men continue on regardless, some men sleep while they walk.
(It is good and fitting to die for your country.)
Wilfred Owen was a soldier in the First World War; he saw at first hand what was happening and it made him wonder about the cause he was fighting for. The war inspired some of the best war poetry in the world.
I think that Wilfred Owen was incredibly descriptive in what he wrote and his use of similes and metaphors were very good. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est which is describing a trope of men returning from the front line tired, and then coming under a gas attack.
In the description of the men he uses a metaphor to describe the men, "Bent double, like old beggars under sack" which gives a very vivid picture of what the men look like. I see the men leaning forward in raged old clothing with dirty faces and hand, their clothes have holes in them and they are blood stained.
He then goes on to describe the way they are walking and the language they are using. "Knock-kneed, coughing like old hags, we cursed through sludge" this make the men seem like they are at deaths gates, ready to collapse at any minute and hating every minute that they have to be alive in this place. This is also shown in the language that is used by the men, cursing about their situation. But the men continue on regardless, some men sleep while they walk.
