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    Wilfred Owen ----------------------- Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double‚ like old beggars under sacks‚ Knock-kneed‚ coughing like hags‚ we cursed through sludge‚ Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on‚ blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of disappointed shells that dropped behind. GAS! Gas! Quick‚ boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling

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    Owen explores the impact of war on society and youth in WW1” When WW1 was declared in August 1914‚ a huge number of men wanted to enlist‚ their enthusiasm being shared amongst many others‚ aged only 15-18. It was a global war centred in Europe‚ and although devastating‚ also gave birth to some of the best poets of their time. One of the soldiers who experienced the war first hand was Wilfred Owen and through his poetry‚ he graphically illustrated both the horrors of warfare‚ the physical landscapes

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    What techniques does Owen use to communicate his feelings about ‘the pity of war’ in his poem “Futility”? He uses techniques in the poem such as empathy as he really uses his feeling to express his ideas‚ while using his ideas to express his feelings. The poem begins with the narrator ordering that the man be moved into the sun; this leads us to believe that the narrator is of a high rank than the person he was talking to‚ someone of low rank would not be giving orders to someone who outranked

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    weak from the war. Owen speaks about the war with his insights of pity he has for it ’In all my dreams‚ before my helpless sight‚ He plunges at me‚ guttering‚ choking‚ drowning. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in‚ And watch the white eyes writhing in his face‚ His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin’ and Owens insights of the war allow the readers to capture and understand what world war 1 was like from his own experiences. Owen uses emotive and

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    24/11/11 09:25 Owen used the natural world to achieve and explain to the reader that war was horrific. He wanted to write about this because he was a soldier and had experienced war himself and felt the need to write about his experience. The use of natural imagery also carries with it religious implications as he begins to express his doubt in his own faith. The theme of the natural world and the recurring theme of the sun helped him to achieve his thoughts because of the contrast between the

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    Wilfred Owen expresses his not so pleasant experiences of war through his poetry. He shows us the portrayal of the suffering and pity that the leaders had put their young soldiers in to by sending them off to war. His poem “the parable of the old man and the young’ is a biblical illusion of the story of Abraham and the poem ‘disabled’ illustrates to us both the mental and physical consequences of going to war. Owen adapts a biblical story to better suit a story which demonstrates to us the pointlessness

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    Thomas as “a poet of all times all places and all wars”. Wilfred Owens unique writing style used to express his contentious depiction of war led him to become one of the greatest war poets. Owen wrote poems on frhis personal experiences during the war and was heavily influenced by his friend and mentor Siegfried Sassoon a fellow war poet and soldier. Owens poems contested the public perception of war and changed how people viewed it. Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire in 1893‚ and at the outbreak of

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    Explain how particular features of at least two of Wilfred Owen’s poems set for study interact to affect your response to them. Wilfred Owen’s war poems central features include the wastage involved with war‚ horrors of war and the physical effects of war. These features are seen in the poems "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and "Anthem for Doomed Youth" here Owen engages with the reader appealing to the readers empathy that is felt towards the soldier. These poems interact to explore the experiences of

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    does Owen’s portrayal of the relationship between youth and war move us to a deeper understanding of suffering? As an anti-war poet‚ Wilfred Owen uses his literary skills to express his perspective on human conflict and the wastage involved with war‚ the horrors of war‚ and its negative effects and outcomes. As a young man involved in the war himself‚ Owen obtained personal objectivity of the dehumanisation of young people during the war‚ as well as the false glorification that the world has

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    the class all contain different themes in each poem. Both Wilfred Owen’s and Sara Teasdale’s poem holds a theme of their own. We as a class read two Wilfred Owen poems‚ “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth‚” and one named “There will come Soft Rains‚” by Sara Teasdale. All these poems that we read have different themes and many could say that there is no similarity in between them. In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” Wilfred Owen’s theme was that“It is sweet and fitting to die for

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