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    Gareth Farr 1. Brief Biography of His Life: a. Gareth Farr was born on the 29th of February 1968 in Wellington. As a child he was extremely responsive to pitched noises (indicating his musicality). He used to spend hours at a time sitting in front of the washing machine listening to the noises it made. The “agitator” in particular fascinated him because of the whirring noise it produced with a variance in pitch. From a very young age he used to walk over to people’s houses and say “can

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    Wilfred Owen Essay Theme: The way weaponry has been portrayed. Throughout literature poets have used various literary devices in order to convey their message to the audience. Wilfred Owen has cleverly personified weaponry in the context of war and has woven it in his poems. This in turn accentuates the message he is trying to convey-- the paradox of War. The use of this tool is most prominent in three of his poems‚ The Last Laugh‚ Arms and The Boy and Anthem for Doomed

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    and manipulate the emotions of their readers. Wilfred Owen creatively and successfully paints a picture for his audience about the battling lives of young soldiers who were lured into joining World War One. His poems deliver the fears‚ the courage and the manipulation of World War One experiences through themes such as loss of identity‚ brutality of war‚ repo cautions of war‚ reality of war‚ sense of sacrifice and dehumanisation. Wilfred Owen employs rhetorical questions to engage the reader to stop

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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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    What is Wilfred Owen’s attitude towards WW1 and how is this shown through his poetry? Wilfred Owen was a soldier during world war one. Many of his poems were published posthumously‚ and now well renowned. His poems were also heavily influenced by his good friend and fellow soldier Siegfried Sassoon. Wilfred Owen was tragically killed one week before the end of the war. During the war Wilfred Owen had strong feelings towards the use of propaganda and war in general‚ this was due to the horrors he

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    Does Owens poetry do more than offer the reader an insight into the horrors of war? Discuss with reference to at least two poems. <br> <br>Wilfred Owen is arguable the greatest of the world war one poets. This is a man who through personal experience offers us not only insight into the astrocities of war but also illustrates the struggle of nature and the mental state these men cross into on the battle field. In ‘Spring Offensive’‚ Owen mixes the ideas of war and nature in a conversational tone

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    Analysis - "Exposure" by Wilfred Owen The poem "exposure" by Wilfred Owen is written in Winter of 1917. It portrays the message of the real enemy of the soldiers being the cold and icy conditions. Moreover‚ it provides us with a lively description of the persistent cold and awful conditions during one of the worst winters in the first world war. It shows that most of the soldiers were exposed rather than shot by enemies. The poem portrays all the opposing facts to make young men not join the war

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    Owen reflects on the price paid by soldiers during wartime as he shows how the war takes away the soldiers lives. Owen describes the soldiers as being “Bent double like old beggars” this shows the price paid by soldiers as war has aged them. Owen then goes on to describe the soldiers as hags and wearing sacks. Instead of wearing smart uniforms they are now dressed like beggars in sacks. This again shows the price paid. In both Exposure and Dulce et Decorum Est‚ Owen uses strong verbs. In Dulce

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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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    ENGLISH MODULES Wilfred Own Poetry Wilfred Owen was a war poet. Unlike many other poets of the first world war‚ Owen wrote about the hellish nature of war. He sought to reveal the horrors of war and became the spokesmen for men at the front. Common views of war at that time was that it was a patriotic thing to do‚ the honour and glory it would bring‚ the music and the drums. Wilfred thorugh his poems aims to encourage readers that war is not something to be glorifying‚ men‚ even teenagers are

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