Wilfred Owen Poetry Analysis

Literary Analysis Prewriting My thesis is that I believe the war inspired many of Wilfred Owen’s poems. He was very dedicated to his country. In fact he even enlisted himself in the military voluntarily. The war had many influences on Wilfred and his poems. For example, a quote from Dulce Et Decorum Est “If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood come gargling from the forth-corrupted lungs obscene as cancer, bitter as the cod of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues”, this poem he was talking about the gas attacks. I believe that Wilfred Owen’s writing style is impressive, he has good form and uses past experiences to influence his poems. For example “Others have shown the disenchantment of war, have unlegended the roselight and romance of it, but none with such compassion for the disenchanted nor such sternly just and justly stern judgment on the idyllisers.” In this quote he describes how he believes everyone thinks the war is not all bad, and that it is the stuff of romance and legends. This talks about how people think so great of surviving military members. They all had to do horrifying things just to survive, yet no one thinks of the war like that. They only see it as honorable and bravery.
For example, www.gravesaver.com says “Owen said his poems were about the pity of war, not the “glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power.” That war poems traditionally addressed. “Strange Meeting” contains this phrase in the context of a subterranean meeting of a soldier and the enemy he killed.” They are saying that his work was inspired by how the war had changed who he was. They believe he did great work by going against tradition and making his work unique. I agree with them and believe that Wilfred’s poems came from his heart and memory. He told the reality of war, what it was truly