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    Wasteland: War and Wilfred Owen’s Poetry Poetry‚ by its definition‚ is a type of language that unites beauty‚ the deep sense of the value of life‚ with truth‚ the realization and awakening to the meaning of life. Poetry is also a type of language that expresses more and expresses it more intensely than ordinary language. It can also unite the three uses of language: literary‚ hortatory‚ and practical. Poetry can be written on a very broad range of subjects. A poet can also write poetry

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    Wilfred Owens’ poetry on war can be described as a passionate expression of Owen’s outrage over the horrors of war and pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it. His poetry is dramatic and memorable‚ whether describing shame and sorrow‚ such as in ’The Last Laugh’‚ or his description of the unseen psychological consequences of war detailed in ’The Next War’ and ’Anthem for Doomed Youth’. His diverse use of instantly understandable technique is what makes him the most memorable of the war poets

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    Wilfred Owen Poems MINERS (Page 75) There had been a terrible accident at a place called Podmore Hall Colliery (1918). 140 miners and pit-boys died Owen wrote in a letter that he thought this poem had ‘sour’ taste. He also said that if the poem were to have a subtitle it would be: ‘How the future will forget the dead in war.’ This would be its epigraph Soldiers and miners are similar in that they both risk their lives General strike in 1926 because miners didn’t get paid enough for the job

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    ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH BY WILFRED OWEN Wilfred Edward Salter Owen‚ 1893 - 1918 Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on March 18‚ 1893 in Shropshire‚ England. After the death of his grandfather in 1897‚ the family moved to Birkenhead‚ where Owen was educated at the Birkenhead Institute. After another move in 1906‚ he continued his continued his studies at the Technical School in Shrewsbury. Interested in the arts at a young age‚ Owen began to experiment with poetry at 17. After failing

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    The first world war was a life changing event that affected many people and made an immense impact on today’s society. Frequent writers has used this as an inspiration to write peoms‚ suchs as “V. The Soldier”‚ by Robert Brooks and “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen. Both of these poems share the same theme being war‚ but in contrast they both perceived it in different ways. Owen served as a British soldier in the front line during the warthrough his realistic and horrific poems he became

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    Discuss how composers have used distinctively visual elements to convey a particular point of view. Distinctively visual elements have enabled composers to convey particular points of views‚ through the vividly portrayed images on the topic of war. John Misto’s ‘The Shoe Horn Sonata’ captures the past experiences of 2 Japanese prisoners‚ Sheila Richards and Bridie Cartwright during the horror of World War 2. Misto’s use of distinctively visual elements highlights the power of friendship and emotion

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    Wilfred Owen is a remarkable figure who expresses his thoughts and experiences of the unspeakable war and the decimation of youth in his passionate poetry during WWI. His exploration of human cruelty highlights the ramifications‚ suffering‚ and the pointlessness of warfare that explores the unbearable agony endured by the brave young soldiers. "Futility" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" are two poems that perfectly epitomise Owen’s first-hand experience on hardship and uselessness of war. Here‚ he expresses

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    "Futility" Wilfred Owen

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    destined to fail. The quality of producing no valuable effect‚ or of coming to nothing; uselessness. The structure of the poem is in balanced stanzas - the tenderness and hopefulness at the beginning; the growing bitterness of the second‚ with its climax. Owen is telling the persona’s story of the death of a comrade as a balance. This has to happen as so many of them died that there still has to be a degree of sanity left in them. "Futility" mourns the sad ironic death of a soldier‚ a young man in a young

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    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‚ spares not the hamstrings or cowardly backs Of battle-shy youths." Contrast of the two poems - Jessie Pope supports the war‚ Who’s for the game. This could mean game

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    destroyed. It shows the effect the war has on the young man’s life. He was in deep misery since he was limbless clearly as a result of war. The word “wheeled chair” implies that the person is disabled‚ and the quote “legless‚ sewn short at elbow” further described that the soldier was limbless. Owen described him as a “ghastly suit of grey” painting a picture of colorless‚ grey‚ lifeless man. This soldier was clearly devastated‚ despair and hopeless to himself and Owen portrayed it using irony and sympathy

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