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    negative can be established through the author’s description of the physical and emotional setting. How a person shows love‚ is affected by love‚ and what one loves can all be impacted by their environment. I will use 1984‚ “The Soldier”‚ and “Anthem for a Doomed Youth” to portray this idea further. A positive environment will increase an individual’s ability to give and receive love towards that which they love. Oftentimes an author will portray this positivity by using favorable adjectives when describing

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    Representation of Wilfred Owen in ‘Regeneration’ by Pat Barker In ‘Regeneration‚’ Wilfred Owen does not feature very often‚ and when he does feature‚ he is always alongside Siegfried Sassoon. Hence‚ I feel Owen’s purpose in the novel is more to advance and develop Sassoon’s character than it is his own. However‚ through his meeting and interactions with Sassoon‚ Owen actually develops himself too‚ in terms of his confidence and his poetry. When Owen first features in the novel‚ he is described

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    the term war. Wilfred Owen is not one of those people. Wilfred Owen served till his death in the trenches during World War I for his home country of England. Wilfred Owen is one of very few war poets whose poetry reflects events they have experienced. This experience offers insight and opinion that can not be matched by other poets. It is this experience and his willing participation in war that makes his anti-war poetry especially interesting. It is clear to see why Wilfred Owen developed his

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    - the meeting of an enemy who is really a‘ friend’. Many of Owen’s poems share resentment towards the generals and those at home who have encouraged war.‘ Disabled’ has a very bitter tone–‘ Aye‚ that was it‚ to please the giddy jilts’.‘ His Meg’ didn’t stay around after he joined to‘

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    Wilfred Owen’s poetry effectively conveys his perspectives on human conflict through his experiences during The Great War. Poems such as ‘Futility’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ portray these perceptions through the use of poetic techniques‚ emphasising such conflicts involving himself‚ other people and nature. These themes are examined in extreme detail‚ attempting to shape meaning in relation to Owen’s first-hand encounters whilst fighting on the battlefield. Wilfred Owen experiences many inner

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    Owen is more famous for his angry and emotional poems such as Dulce‚ though his quieter poems can pack just a strong a punch. Futility has a barely controlled emotion to it‚ we are used to Owen questioning war and people but here he questions life itself. His desperation and hollow lack of hope‚ so resigned against life‚ is intensely emotional‚ beyond anger and beyond help. His use of sounds and assonance give the poem a quiet tone‚ almost as if the speaker is whispering. There is no

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    Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est Dulce et Decorum Est – Part of a phrase from Horace‚ quoted in full in the last lines “It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country” Qn: Note all the similes in this poem. What patterns do you see here? What do the similes individually and collectively contribute to the poem‚ especially in terms of undermining the “lie” to which Owen alludes? Title As we begin to peruse the title‚ we get the initial impression that the contents of the poem are related to

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    you feel strongly about a main theme or issue. The two poems‚ Dulce et Decorum Est‚ and Anthem for Doomed Youth are both written by Wilfred Owen. Owen’s main idea was to expose the true horrors of war and to challenge the romanticised view of war that poets such as Rupert Brooke held. To achieve this‚ Owen used familiar imagery techniques of similes and assonance‚ and sound devices such as onomatopoeia and alliteration. ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ aims to give a clear reference to the audience‚ a glimpse

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    Writing 4 The presentation of war in the poems written by Odin and Alfred Lord Tennyson compared to poems written by Wilfred Owen is vastly different. Both shed vastly different light on the subject of one dying for his country. The main fundamental ideological difference of the two given poems by Odin and Tennyson is that they believe when one dies in war‚ they should be honored and celebrated‚ and it should be considered a glorious death‚ while Wilfred Owen believes a death in war is an unnecessary

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    There are an abundant number of poems in the selection that do convey the futility of war and some that do not at all. Wilfred Owens ’Futility’ and ’Anthem for Doomed Youth’ are examples where pointlessness of war is addressed. On the contrary‚ ’The Dead’ differs with the question given as it exalts the dead and affirms that war is a place where one can die with honour. In the poem ’Futility’ by Wilfred Owen‚ he emphasises that war is pointless and stresses that the soldiers that have died in

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