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    particular ways the poet had communicated ideas in example Wilfred Owens War Poems and others how many of you could write a good HSC response? Not many well today i will be addressing this question for you and hopefully this will therefore assist you. Wilfred Owen uses poetry to challenge public perceptions on the war as well as to inform‚ awaken and enlighten his readers about what war was really like‚ the horrors‚ the pity and the waste of war‚ through exploring the emotional and psychological impact

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    Oral Commentary on “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen The poem “Disabled” is taken from Wilfred Owen’s collection of poetry referred to as Trench Poet. It was written in 1917 and tells the story of a soldier who lost his limbs in battle leaving him utterly helpless. It aims to crush the glorified image of war present in the minds of the public. The messages and content present in the poem heavily resemble that of other poems from the collection such as; “The Send-Off”‚ which also uses contrast to

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    Wilfred Owen Concept: Owen challenges public perception of war and evokes moral outrage. He portrays the horrors‚ mistreatment of the soldiers and brutality felt throughout war. Owen wanted to inform‚ awaken and enlighten his reader about what war was really like. Owen shows us both his experiences throughout war and the soldiers as he attempts to show it from their perspective. He wanted to highlight the sacrifices‚ ugliness and barbarity of war as a way of arousing awareness. Owens use of similes

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    vividly. A poem in which a place is portrayed vividly is “Exposure” written by Wilfred Owen. Owen vividly describes No-Man’s Land throughout the poem “we hear the mad gusts tugging on the wire”. The poem highlights the physical and psychological effects of war during the winter. As the poem continues‚ the conditions gradually intensify; leaving the remaining soldiers with horrible psychological after affects. Owen vividly portrays the devastating effects of the weather conditions throughout the

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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 war‚ through his realistic and horrific poems he became

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    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on 18 March 1893 and died on 4 November 1918. He was an English poet and soldier‚ one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking‚ graphic poetry about the First World War was very heavily influenced by his friend‚ Siegfried Sassoon. There was a vast contrast between his poetry about the war and that of others‚ such as Rupert Brooke‚ as his took on a completely different perspective‚ and showed the readers a whole new side of the war. This wasn’t

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    Wilfred Owen is regarded by historians as the leading poet of the First World War‚ known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare. His use of pararhyme‚ with its heavy reliance on consonance‚ was innovative and infact he was not the only poet at that time to use these particular techniques. Owen showcase the torture and the pain of the endless war using various figures of speech to make the readers feel the pain and sympathize with soldier’s condition.Owen has made use of excellent

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    antiwar poetry of Wilfred Owen "And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime/Dim through the misty panes and thick green light/As under a green sea‚ I saw him drowning."(Owen 12-14). In his poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" Wilfred Owen describes a scene he witnessed in the first world war. After writing about what he had seen‚ he then states his belief‚ that Horace’s quotation (which is also the name of the poem) is untrue‚ and if even the most ardent hawk would have seen what Owen and his comrades had

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    Owens opens up his claim about the equity among female and male participants in the military by providing evidence from professors across the nation‚ who seem against it or supporting the idea in the military. He wants to explain one of the dangers that women face‚ however‚ as well as to mention his opinions that a woman’s weakness should not stop her from being part of combat. Thus allowing his paper to be purely on women throughout the paper introducing methods of how women should be treated with

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    Wilfred Owen was born at Plas Wilmot‚ a house in Weston Lane‚ near Oswestry in Shropshire‚ on 18 March 1893‚ of mixed English and Welsh ancestry. He was the eldest of four children‚ his siblings being Harold‚ Colin‚ and Mary Millard Owen. At that time‚ his parents‚ Thomas and Harriet Susan (née Shaw) Owen‚ lived in a comfortable house owned by his grandfather‚ Edward Shaw but‚ after the latter’s death in January 1897‚ and the house’s sale in March‚[1] the family lodged in back streets of Birkenhead

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