Wilfred Owen And Robert Brooks
The first world war was a life changing event that affected many people and made an immense impact on today’s society. Frequent writers has used this as an inspiration to write peoms, suchs as “V. The Soldier”, by Robert Brooks and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen. Both of these poems share the same theme being war, but in contrast they both perceived it in different ways. Owen served as a British soldier in the front line during the war, through his realistic and horrific poems he became one of the greatest war poets during the first world war. On the other hand, Brooks also served in the military, but never went to battle. This is noticeable by the way they both write about the same theme. It become clear to the reader that Owen and Brooks
…show more content…
had different interpretations of what the war was like.
From the start of the poem the reader can already see how the poem is going.
The title being “Anthem for Doomed Youth” gives a general knowledge of what the mood is to be. Anthem is often associated with a national anthem, cheerful, happy, positivity. But with the following words being Doomed Youth it implies that something negative will happen to the younger generation. In the beginning of Owen's poem he describes soldiers as cattle, “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?” (line 1). Owen starts his poem with the uses a rhetorical question to ask the reader if the soldier got the respect that they deserve, and are able to use their critical thinking. Owen never supported war, in his view, it was a waste of human life, as he says that they die like cattle. Another concept that is explored by Owen is the use of personification and alliteration. “Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”(line 2) here he uses personification in order to give guns a human feature, stating back to the first question, that the soldiers only get gunfire and that the gunfire is as monstrous as the war. In “Rifles’ rapid rattle” (line 3) the use of alliteration gives the poem a good rhythm, but it also explains the horror of gun
fire.
Brooks wants his audience to view the war and soldiers in a different light then Owen. In the beginning of Brooks's poem, “If I should die, think only this of me:” (line 1), he addresses the reader with a question stating whether or not he is going to survive, it creates the reality that not all soldiers that went to war came home alive. In addition he want the readers to think of him in a special way and ends the sentence with a semicolon, the effects of this lets the readers know of the things that he wants them to think of him as. In lines 1-4 he starts of by comparing his dead body to England's fields, this is a very patriotic thing to do for his country. He also refers his body as ‘dust’ “In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware” (Line 4,5) In these lines Brooks says that his ashes will be buried in England's fields, again being a very patriotic thing to say about a country. This is something that Owen does not display in his poem.
had different interpretations of what the war was like.
From the start of the poem the reader can already see how the poem is going.
The title being “Anthem for Doomed Youth” gives a general knowledge of what the mood is to be. Anthem is often associated with a national anthem, cheerful, happy, positivity. But with the following words being Doomed Youth it implies that something negative will happen to the younger generation. In the beginning of Owen's poem he describes soldiers as cattle, “What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?” (line 1). Owen starts his poem with the uses a rhetorical question to ask the reader if the soldier got the respect that they deserve, and are able to use their critical thinking. Owen never supported war, in his view, it was a waste of human life, as he says that they die like cattle. Another concept that is explored by Owen is the use of personification and alliteration. “Only the monstrous anger of the guns.”(line 2) here he uses personification in order to give guns a human feature, stating back to the first question, that the soldiers only get gunfire and that the gunfire is as monstrous as the war. In “Rifles’ rapid rattle” (line 3) the use of alliteration gives the poem a good rhythm, but it also explains the horror of gun
fire.
Brooks wants his audience to view the war and soldiers in a different light then Owen. In the beginning of Brooks's poem, “If I should die, think only this of me:” (line 1), he addresses the reader with a question stating whether or not he is going to survive, it creates the reality that not all soldiers that went to war came home alive. In addition he want the readers to think of him in a special way and ends the sentence with a semicolon, the effects of this lets the readers know of the things that he wants them to think of him as. In lines 1-4 he starts of by comparing his dead body to England's fields, this is a very patriotic thing to do for his country. He also refers his body as ‘dust’ “In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware” (Line 4,5) In these lines Brooks says that his ashes will be buried in England's fields, again being a very patriotic thing to say about a country. This is something that Owen does not display in his poem.