How Is Language Used In Dulce Et Decorum Est
Essay
Dulce et decorum est, by Wilfred Owen is a haunting poem about the horrific and brutal reality of war. The poem recalls the unforgettable experience in the midst of World War One. The poem tells of a gas attack on a few young soldiers and the agony one endured when he failed to fit his gas mask in time. Owen used his honestly and graphic language throughout his poems to show the public the truth behind the governments glorified words, that told lies about what war would really be like for the young, brave men who volunteered. This essay will discuss how Wilfred's use of language and techniques help depict a vivid picture of Owen's endurances throughout the war.
In the first stanza, the soldiers are moving towards their haven for the …show more content…
His intended readers however, would be governments and those who glorify it without truly experiencing it, without understanding what they are truly glorifying. The word choice of smothering suggests that soldiers still get recurring dreams of the war, so terrifying it causes them to feel as though they couldn't breath or they couldn't escape. The word flung has connotations of something done hurriedly which suggests that the soldiers did not have the time to grieve and the familiarity of being around the dead had make the action an almost instinctual thing for the soldiers to do. Possibly the body on the wagon was put there in such as manner because there was no help for the soldier no matter what, whether he was already dead or in the agonising process of dying. Here the language shows the reader that so many people died, many without an identity or proper funeral, not an acceptable way to die when the soldiers have died for such a great …show more content…
The same words could also be a metaphor, comparing his face to that of a man that has been hung, a hue of blue and purple from the lack of oxygen. Furthermore, the simile like a devil sick of sin suggests that the things that have been done to the solder are even to grotesque for the devil to handle; as if the way in which these brave men have been murdered is the ultimate sin and there has been so much death, the devil has been made ill by the thing he loves most. This just emphasises to the reader using vivid imagery techniques, that this war has caused far to many deaths, far to much pain that's not easily
Dulce et decorum est, by Wilfred Owen is a haunting poem about the horrific and brutal reality of war. The poem recalls the unforgettable experience in the midst of World War One. The poem tells of a gas attack on a few young soldiers and the agony one endured when he failed to fit his gas mask in time. Owen used his honestly and graphic language throughout his poems to show the public the truth behind the governments glorified words, that told lies about what war would really be like for the young, brave men who volunteered. This essay will discuss how Wilfred's use of language and techniques help depict a vivid picture of Owen's endurances throughout the war.
In the first stanza, the soldiers are moving towards their haven for the …show more content…
His intended readers however, would be governments and those who glorify it without truly experiencing it, without understanding what they are truly glorifying. The word choice of smothering suggests that soldiers still get recurring dreams of the war, so terrifying it causes them to feel as though they couldn't breath or they couldn't escape. The word flung has connotations of something done hurriedly which suggests that the soldiers did not have the time to grieve and the familiarity of being around the dead had make the action an almost instinctual thing for the soldiers to do. Possibly the body on the wagon was put there in such as manner because there was no help for the soldier no matter what, whether he was already dead or in the agonising process of dying. Here the language shows the reader that so many people died, many without an identity or proper funeral, not an acceptable way to die when the soldiers have died for such a great …show more content…
The same words could also be a metaphor, comparing his face to that of a man that has been hung, a hue of blue and purple from the lack of oxygen. Furthermore, the simile like a devil sick of sin suggests that the things that have been done to the solder are even to grotesque for the devil to handle; as if the way in which these brave men have been murdered is the ultimate sin and there has been so much death, the devil has been made ill by the thing he loves most. This just emphasises to the reader using vivid imagery techniques, that this war has caused far to many deaths, far to much pain that's not easily