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    face‚ / His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin; / If you could hear‚ at every jolt‚ the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs‚ Obscene as cancer‚ bitter as the cud/ Of vile‚ incurable sores on innocent tongues” (Lines 19-24). Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est FUNCTION Context: Prior to the quote‚ there is an army of men who are “drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots” (Line 7). War-ridden‚ these men are suffering the costs of war‚ but the situation only gets worse for them

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    Section One I have chosen two poems that have been studied to be analysed. The first poem is ‘In Westminster Abbey’ by John Betjeman and the second one is ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen. The reason why I choose these two poems is because I have this tendency to be into war poems and am interested in how the poets used satire in them. Satire is a powerful literature concept that can be used to address the fault in our society by using satiric devices such as humour‚ irony‚ invective‚ parody

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    Distinctive ideas are at the heart of all poetry. In your view‚ what is a distinctive idea explored in Wilfred Owen’s poetry? Explain how this idea is developed in at least two poems you have studied. A distinctive idea that circulates throughout all of Owen’s poetry is the concept of the pity of war‚ this involves the devastating effects during and after the war. This is seen in his two poems Disabled and Dulce Et Decorum Est. The pity of war is expresses in the poem Disabled which is the

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    A summary of the first stanza is it describes soldiers who are hunched over carrying their gear through thick sludge. Some of the soldiers walking had lost their boots in battle‚ so they now have bloody feet‚ yet they still trudged through. They had been deafened earlier by the sounds of artillery and gas shells‚ and to add to that they were exhausted. The second stanza tells us the soldiers are bombarded by gas‚ and they hurry to put their masks on‚ but some soldiers unfortunately were not able

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    Jessie Pope - Extract from Who’s for the game? Who’s for the game‚ the biggest that’s played‚ The red crashing game of a fight? Who’ll grip and tackle the job unafraid? And who thinks he’d rather sit tight? Wilfred Owen - Extract from Dulce et Decorum Est "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: mors et fugacem persequitur virum nec parcit inbellis iuventae poplitibus timidove tergo." ENGLISH "How sweet and fitting it is to die for one’s country: Death pursues the man who flees

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    Essay – Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen said‚ “above all I am not interested in poetry. My subject is war and the pity of war”. To what degree is this true of two poems you have studied? Wilfred Owen was a British poet who fought in World War I. His poems are clearly‚ as he stated‚ about “war and the pity of war”‚ but he has used brilliant and skilful poetry to communicate the real experiences and impacts of war. We see evidence of this in ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and also ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. Pity

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    efforts. Wilfred Owen did not like that those poets did not truly know what was going on‚ yet pretended that they did know. Wilfred Owen’s poem is very significant in the way that the poem shows what war is really like. Owen’s poem quickly became my favorite poem ever written. Therefore‚ I recommend that you keep Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” because he uses imagery and alliteration to effectively relay that war is cruel‚ and war is lied about. Through effective visual imagery‚ Owen shows the

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    Comparison of ‘Futility’ and ‘Poppies’ The two notorious war poems Futility by Wilfred Owen and Poppies by Jane Weir are poems that are different in many ways. Although they are both based on war‚ the theme of each poem is different. It is clear that ‘Poppies’ is about a mother talking about her son leaving her‚ whilst ‘Futility’ is about a man grieving the death of a comrade in battle. Whilst both poems share a sense of loss‚ in ‘Poppies’‚ it is more a fear of the possibility of loss rather than

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    Research Paper 9 March 2011 Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon are both considered two of the best war poets to ever write. These two poets actually possess many similarities with Sassoon being a great influence on Owen. With both of them being a part of World War I‚ that greatly motivated them to write poetry about the war. Neither one of them was very fond of being in the war. This led to them both writing poems of anger and distress towards the war. Both Owen and Sassoon had terrible experiences

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    does ‘Exposure’ by Wilfred Owen tackle the Theme of War? ‘Exposure’ is a war poem written by Wilfred Owen in 1917 which describes how it felt like to be a soldier fighting war in the winter season. Owen focuses on the weather and shows how they are suffering more from the cold than getting wounded and hurt from the enemy which is not typical in war poetry. He has used a lot of figurative language and literary techniques to portray the cold and the soldiers’ feelings. Firstly‚ Owen applies figurative

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