world war one poem essays
Carolyn Fernandez
English 201
Prof. Mahl
World War one created an environment in which men and women were prompted to express their feelings into poetry. Poetry in world war one are frequently taught in schools and universities. There has been over two thousand published poets who wrote about and during the war. However only a small portion are still known today. A selection of poets and poems emerged during the 1960s which often remains the standard in modern collection and distorts the impression of world war one poetry. A lot of soldiers during the war experience stress. A lot of them needed help for (PTSD). Most people who go through a trauma have some symptoms at the beginning. Only some will develop PTSD over time. PTSD is posttraumatic stress disorder and can occur after you have been through a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something terrible and scary that you see hear about or that happens to you like Combat exposure, which is what soldiers during world war one went through. These soldiers got exposed to some really ugly terrible things like a lot of death. Poems were often used by many people, as a way to vent their feelings, and find a voice.
In the poem, Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, Owen shows his feelings toward the war with strong sarcasm and empathy. He shows strong empathy because he was a soldier in the army and military until he got admitted to a hospital with shell shock. In this hospital he met Siegfried Sassoon a poet also. Sassoon showed Owen another view of the war. Regardless of Owens view on the war he went back to the war in 1918 and was killed in 1918 he was shot only seven days before the war ended. Soldiers go through horror and the poem shows us an inside on it and a view of the life of a soldier. Owen’s shows his concept of the war in the poem. In the first stanza of the poem Owen conveys the experiences that soldiers go through by saying “Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots but
English 201
Prof. Mahl
World War one created an environment in which men and women were prompted to express their feelings into poetry. Poetry in world war one are frequently taught in schools and universities. There has been over two thousand published poets who wrote about and during the war. However only a small portion are still known today. A selection of poets and poems emerged during the 1960s which often remains the standard in modern collection and distorts the impression of world war one poetry. A lot of soldiers during the war experience stress. A lot of them needed help for (PTSD). Most people who go through a trauma have some symptoms at the beginning. Only some will develop PTSD over time. PTSD is posttraumatic stress disorder and can occur after you have been through a traumatic event. A traumatic event is something terrible and scary that you see hear about or that happens to you like Combat exposure, which is what soldiers during world war one went through. These soldiers got exposed to some really ugly terrible things like a lot of death. Poems were often used by many people, as a way to vent their feelings, and find a voice.
In the poem, Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, Owen shows his feelings toward the war with strong sarcasm and empathy. He shows strong empathy because he was a soldier in the army and military until he got admitted to a hospital with shell shock. In this hospital he met Siegfried Sassoon a poet also. Sassoon showed Owen another view of the war. Regardless of Owens view on the war he went back to the war in 1918 and was killed in 1918 he was shot only seven days before the war ended. Soldiers go through horror and the poem shows us an inside on it and a view of the life of a soldier. Owen’s shows his concept of the war in the poem. In the first stanza of the poem Owen conveys the experiences that soldiers go through by saying “Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots but