Similarities Between Dulce Et Decorum Est And Exposure By Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum est and Exposure Comparative Essay
In this essay I will be comparing two poems written by Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum est and Exposure. Both of these poems were written at the time when Owen was serving his country in World War 1. He was fighting between his belief of serving his country and his religion when he wrote these two poems.
In the poem Dulce et Decorum est the title is ironic. The intention was not so much to induce pity as to shock, especially civilians at home who believed war was noble and glorious. The title itself means “It is sweet and right to die for your country” but as you start to read through the poem you realise that Owen is trying to say that the future generation shouldn’t fight as war is complete
futile. “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks” Owen starts it off by saying that their living conditions weren’t good and they were reduced to beggars as they didn’t really have a home. The reader would immediately start to detract from the fact that war is all about glory and comfort, they will start to realise that it is painful and life scaring. The poem has four unequal stanzas, the first two were in sonnet form and the last two were not following the iambic pentameter structure so strictly and were in a loose structure. However in Exposure the title has a direct meaning to the poem and doesn’t have sarcasm to it. The plot of the poem represented the harsh and cold weather in the trenches during the winter time of World War 1. “Our brains ached ”
In this essay I will be comparing two poems written by Wilfred Owen, Dulce et Decorum est and Exposure. Both of these poems were written at the time when Owen was serving his country in World War 1. He was fighting between his belief of serving his country and his religion when he wrote these two poems.
In the poem Dulce et Decorum est the title is ironic. The intention was not so much to induce pity as to shock, especially civilians at home who believed war was noble and glorious. The title itself means “It is sweet and right to die for your country” but as you start to read through the poem you realise that Owen is trying to say that the future generation shouldn’t fight as war is complete
futile. “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks” Owen starts it off by saying that their living conditions weren’t good and they were reduced to beggars as they didn’t really have a home. The reader would immediately start to detract from the fact that war is all about glory and comfort, they will start to realise that it is painful and life scaring. The poem has four unequal stanzas, the first two were in sonnet form and the last two were not following the iambic pentameter structure so strictly and were in a loose structure. However in Exposure the title has a direct meaning to the poem and doesn’t have sarcasm to it. The plot of the poem represented the harsh and cold weather in the trenches during the winter time of World War 1. “Our brains ached ”