To compare the ways in which these poems display the horrors of war. I have selected three poems, The Soldier, by Rupert Brooke, Dulce et Decorum Est, and Anthem for Doomed Youth, both written by Wilfred Owen.

Poetry Coursework Compare how these poems show the horrors of World War 1. To compare the ways in which these poems display the horrors of war. I have selected three poems, �The Soldier�, by Rupert Brooke, �Dulce et Decorum Est�, and �Anthem for Doomed Youth�, both written by Wilfred Owen. I chose �Anthem for Doomed Youth� and �Dulce et Decorum Est� because they are very similar and show the horrors of the war. On the other hand, I chose �The Soldier� because it is a complete contrast and is about the remembrance of the soldiers, who are portrayed as heroes. Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on March 18, 1893. He was abroad teaching until he visited a hospital for the wounded, he then decided to return to England in 1915 and enlisted. Owen was injured in March 1917 and was sent home. By august 1917 he was considered fit for duty and he then returned to the front lines. Just seven days before the Armistice he was shot dead by a German machine gun attacker. Owen was only twenty-five years old. The title �Dulce et Decorum Est� is part of a Latin saying, Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori, which means it is sweet and fitting to die for one�s country. But using this title it makes the poem seem as if it is going to glorify the war and all the people who fought for

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Comparing "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "Five Ways to Kill a Man" and the way they treat man's inhumanity to man.

Comparing "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "Five Ways to Kill a Man" and the way they treat man's inhumanity to man. The poems "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "Five Ways to Kill a Man" written by Wilfred Owen and Edwin Brock respectively are similar in many ways but very different in others. Just by reading them once we can see they both have a very similar theme, that war is just ridiculous; there is nothing glorious or good about killing people. Poetic devices are often used to help create certain feelings, and these two poems certainly reflect how these devices can be used to help the author express his ideas. These two poems were written at different times and there is a gap of about 40 years between them, this difference shows quite clearly mostly in the structure of the poems and the way they are written. "Five Ways to Kill a Man" is a very modern poem, It's structure is not regular, although there are usually 7 lines in a stanza, we can not find such thing as iambic pentameter. The whole poem is a connotation, the author never uses names but expects the reader to know what he is talking about, If the poem had been written 50 years earlier, the use of connotation would have not been such a good idea, as educated people were less, and things such as the T.V radio and internet that nowadays allow people to learn more, didn't exist back then, and you need to be aware of certain

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Analysis or Owen's "Dulce et decorum est".

The poem 'Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' is the name of a poem written my Wilfred Owen, a wartime Poet. The title was taken from an ode by Horace. The title literally means 'It is sweet and right to die for your country'. It was written specifically to stress the fact that the government's Propaganda was a lie, "The Old Lie" as it states in the final stanza of the poem. Propaganda is a word generally used in a war, meaning advertising, promoting and spreading information towards the public. They were generally based around that if you join up, you would get the women! The government wanted, young, fit and red-blooded men to enlist, to fight and die for their country. Thousand's of patriotic men enlisted. Wilfred Owen described the conditions endured by the men in the first stanza in more of a physical manner, emphasizing the men's appearance, positions and actions. From reading this stanza, I can identify that the men were clearly pushed to their physical limits, for example, "drunk with fatigue" or "men marched asleep" both suggest how extremely exhausted they were. Special camps were used in the war; a phrase that suggests this is "and towards our distant rest began to trudge". As the men slowed down with physical and mental drainage, their distant rest seems prolonged. A very serious and saddening mood is used in the poem. If spokes, one would use a very somber

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A comparison between 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen

A comparison between 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' by Wilfred Owen Both of these poems were written during the First World War and both concentrate on how innocent people were killed for no particular reason. The titles of the two poems have exactly the opposite meanings to each other. 'Dulce et Decorum Est' translated into English means it is proper and sweet. From this title you would imagine the poem to be about a noble soldier who goes to war to save his country but it is ironic as the poem is about the complete opposite. The title for 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' tells us that the poem will be about a funeral and how young men's tragic experiences make the reader feel pity for the 'doomed youth'. This title is also ironic as the poem is about how the dead soldiers are all being thrown into one big hole like 'cattle'. Both the poems portray Owen's bitterness and anger towards the war and this is shown in the very first few lines of both poems. 'Dulce et Decorum Est' displays this fact by describing the soldiers as 'beggars', 'hags', and 'coughing' where as 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' uses the words 'die' and 'anger'. The opening lines of the two poems are very effective because they produce either some sort of atmosphere and make the reader feel that they are actually there, or show the feelings for the soldiers who fought in the war. 'Dulce et

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Dulce et Decorum Est(It is good and fitting to die for your country.)

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. The men all know that they are on their way to rest but the road ahead

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The poems Dulce et Decroum Est and The Send-Off are written by Wilfred Owen. Both the poems mock the estabilished belief of nationalism and duty to your country. He wanted to end the glorification of war.

Comparison of poems: Dulce et Decorum Est and The Send-Off. The poems Dulce et Decroum Est and The Send-Off are written by Wilfred Owen. Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th of March 1893 in the United Kingdom. He is probably, one of the most important Enlgish War Poets. The popularity of Owen today can be explained by his condemnation of the horrors of war. As an English poet, he is noted for his anger at the cruelty and waste of war and his pity for its victims. Being a soldier, he got killed in action on November 4th, 1918 in France, seven days before the end of the First World War. The title 'Dulce et Decorum Est ' is in Latin, while the title 'The Send Off" is written in standard English form. 'Dulce et Decorum Est' means 'It is sweet and fitting to die for one's own country.' In the poem 'The Send Off" Wilfred is trying to put forward the idea that when you are sent off, you never come back. Both the poems mock the estabilished belief of nationalism and duty to your country. He wanted to end the glorification of war. 'Dulce et Decorum Est' therefore mocks the estabilished authoritative language of Latin that was reserved for the courts and churches. The poem 'The Send Off' suggests that the outcome of war is grim for the vast majorities who if they return home, would be either dead or injured. 'Dulce et Decorum Est 'in contrast to the title suggests that war, patriotic

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The poems "The soldier" by Rupert Brooke and "Dulce et decorum est" by Wilfred Owen are related to the events in WWI.

Essay of War Poetry The poems "The soldier" by Rupert Brooke and "Dulce et decorum est" by Wilfred Owen are related to the events in WWI. These two poems concentrate on a similar subject, going to war, but have totally different points of view and contradict each other. Rupert Brooke has a patriotic point of view meanwhile Wilfred Owen has a critical opinion. Both of the authors use their own knowledge to show us how soldiers confront war and what consequences do war brings to soldiers. "The soldier" tells about soldiers dying for their own country. Rupert Brooke describes that if you are a soldier and if you die in a battlefield, you become part of the ground. He uses himself as an example, to express his opinion. He tells that he was from England and he represented this country, so if he died in battlefield and fell onto the ground, he would become a part of the ground, so as he is representing England, by forming a part to the ground, he leaves a part of England into it. So by using this example he shows that all the English soldiers that die in a battlefield, leave a part of England in the place. He participated in the WWI and as a result of his experiences he thought that war was a thing where men had to go and that was an honor to participate in. he also represented most of the soldiers opinions before they went to war. Meanwhile the theme of "Dulce et Decorum Est" is

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Write an essay about how Owen's poetry describes the plight of the soldiers.

WRITE AN ESSAY ABOUT HOW OWEN'S POETRY DESCRIBES THE PLIGHT OF THE SOLDIERS. In many of Wilfred Owen's poems, he describes the suffering and the agony of the common soldier during war, not only on the battlefront, but he also describes the after-effects of war and its cruelty. Owen's poetry is inclined towards and elegiac nature with the function to arouse grief and to stimulate remembrance. Owen is usually best when the emotion of grief predominates over disgust in his poems and when tribute is paid to the men who died "as cattle" rather than when criticism is directly made to the perpetrators of war. Owen refers to his poems as elegies, but they offer no consolation to the readers, serving instead to warn them of the true nature of war. To create his 'moral lesson', Owen recalls certain incidents in which he analyses the suffering of particular soldiers lacking identity: "bones without number"... Owen, having been a soldier of high rank, and having had a troop under his hands often brings out the feeling of guilt and shame in his poems: the guilt of having led his men towards death; men who "didn't appear to know a war was on" and never realised the cruelty they were committing themselves to, until they were right up to the neck into it. In the poem Inspection, Wilfred Owen describes how a common soldier is maltreated simply because he had been injured and his uniform was

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Poetry Courswork

Poetry, Post-1914 - Literature Coursework With detailed reference to three poems, compare and contrast the poets' presentation of war through their choice of language and form. World War One was one of the most influential events over Western literature. The three poems which I will analyse in this essay are "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" by W.B. Yeats and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" also by Wilfred Owen. Poets such as Owen decided to write very powerful poems at this period of time to show the world what was going on in the war. By these poems being written and published in various newspapers, the world would get to see what was really happening in the war, rather than seeing all the propaganda that many governments showed the public. The forms of the three poems are mainly very different. "Anthem for Doomed Youth" is written as a sonnet, which is generally associated with love. This association suggests that "Anthem" was written as a celebration of their lives, rather than as a poem to commemorate their lives. Another slight similarity is that "Anthem" and "Dulce" are both written using stanzas, rather than "An Irishman" which is written in free form, even though it is significantly longer than "Anthem". The rhyme schemes of "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" are the same, following the ABAB...

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How is War Presented in "The Charge Of the Light Brigade" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est"?

How is War Presented in "The Charge Of the Light Brigade" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est"? Alfred Lord Tennyson and Wilfred Owen present war in completely different ways in The Charge Of the Light Brigade and Dulce Et Decorum Est. One main difference that stands out to the reader is that Dulce Et Decorum Est just focuses on one single soldier, which reaches the reader on a more personal level. This brings the reader more 'into' the poem and they can really feel the emotion portrayed in the poem. Rather than focussing on just one soldier, Tennyson refers to the Army - "The six hundred." This brings across a much more powerful feeling, and the reader doesn't feel the emotion of each and every soldier therefore a more positive outlook is taken upon the war in The Charge Of the Light Brigade. In contrast to the positive atmosphere created in The Charge Of the Light Brigade, Wilfred Owen takes a very negative outlook on the war, and this is shown in Dulce Et Decorum Est by the emotive language used: "Limped on, blood-shod." This brings the reader closer to the soldier and they can feel more sympathy for him. Making the reader feel sorry for the soldier brings a negative outlook to the war, as the reader is picturing the torture that they must have gone through. In contrast to this, Tennyson looks at the positive aspect of the war, and focuses on not giving up - "Forward the Light

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