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    painting a picture in your mind‚ so you can visualize what horrific events the soldiers are going through. All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” exploit literary devices to affirm the horrors of war. Erich Maria Remarque and Wilfred Owen emphasize poetic language with the use of personification‚ simile‚ and imagery. An idea or animal that is nonhuman‚ is bequeathed with human virtues. In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front he emphasizes poetic language by giving

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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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    TP-CASTT Poetry Analysis By: Matthew S. Title: Anthem for a doomed youth is a title that sounds like they think the generation that is up and coming is going to fail miserably. Paraphrase: The soldiers in war don’t get a honourable death‚ they are being killed off like how cattle are being killed of‚ for the survival of the weaker. The soldier who die’s child[ren] are the ones who know he passed‚ and know that he meant a lot‚ but will never know if he died on honourable death‚ and that’s why

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    Explain the ways in which Wilfred Owen evokes feelings of pity and horror in “Disabled” Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was an English poet and soldier‚ one of the leading poets of the First World War. Many of his poems have been praised for their bleak realism and it is also the case that his poem‚ “Disabled”‚ is observational and written in the third person from his own direct observation and experience. “Disabled” is about war‚ violence and mutilation as well as society’s reaction to this. It was

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    Wilfred Owen’s poetry is shaped by an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences. Select TWO poems set for study and explore Owen’s portrayal of suffering and pity. Wilfred Owen’s poetry has been highly acclaimed by many critics due to the sheer accuracy and heart that is seen in his lines. These critical assortments of words are most likely birthed from his service in World War 1 and his first-hand experience on what the effects of war have on young men. In both The Next War and Anthem for

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    belongs to the first category‚ and ¡§Dulce Et Decorum Est¡¨ by Wilfred Owen belongs to the second. Even though the compositions of these two poems are both based on the same subject - war‚ the composers tried to convey very different ideas‚ views and messages‚ through very different approaches. Through ¡§Dulce Et Decorum Est¡¨‚ Wilfred Owen revealed the horrendous nature of war. In order to strip war of it¡¦s apparent glory‚ Owen featured the utter degradation of war as the predominant idea

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    Although the poems Recalling War by Robert Graves and Mental Cases by Wilfred Owen are both concerned with the damage that war does to the soldiers involved‚ they are different in almost every other respect. Owen’s poem examines the physical and mental effects of war in a very personal and direct way - his voice is very much in evidence in this poem - he has clearly seen people like the ’mental cases’ who are described. It is also evident that Owen’s own experiences of the war are described: he challenges

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    Exposure to War Wilfred Owen is a complex poet. His wartime poems have proven to be influential to those seeking to view conflict from an insider’s perspective. Unfortunately that perspective is anything but pleasant. In his poem Exposure‚ he explains the horror of war and the effects on those involved. In order to properly dissect the meaning of Owens poem‚ one must refer the ideals of New Criticism. By analyzing the word usage‚ imagery‚ figures of speech and those connotations (Bressler

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    emotionally charged poems. The horror of war and the spiritual degradation it inflicts is evident in the work of the World War I poets. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) were both soldiers and poets. Their poems reflect the loss of innocence and the horrible mental and physical toll World War I inflicted on the world. 
Both Sassoon and Owen wrote war poetry to inform people of the realities of war. Sassoon’s efforts to publicly decry the war were stunted when the military

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    How does Wilfred Owen use language and poetic devices to create impact on the reader? Wilfred Owen was a British poet and soldier during the First World War and was born in 1893. Unfortunately Owen died just before the war ended on the 4th of November 1918 at the young age of 25. He was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre just one week before the war had ended. A telegram from the War Office announcing his death was delivered to his mother’s home as her town’s church bells were ringing

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