Wilfred Owen War Poetry

Poetry places individuals minds in a state of imagination and emotion where words are thoughts of experiences brand into the minds of the readers. Dulce Et decorum Est explore how the experiences create emotions for the readers mind to influence the essence of war whilst on the other hand the hymn for Doomed Youth speaks well-nigh what war was resembling in conjunction to pitifulness and stupidity. To begin, Dulce Et Decorum Est (It is sweet and honour able) dialog more or less war and the effects of war.The effects of war are set forth as Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags where sol livers are demystified in juxtaposition to the propaganda where they are spoken closely as young, strong, handsome men and here they come back buggered and weak from the war. Owen speaks round the war with his insights of pity he has for it In all my dreams, before my deep in thought(p) sight, He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.If in some smot hering dreams you too could one thousand Behind the wagon that we flung him in, And watch the white eyes wri amour in his face, His hanging face, like a devils sick of sin and Owens insights of the war will the readers to capture and understand what world war 1 was like from his own experiences. Owen uses emotional and alliteration language to grasp the minds of the readers Gas Gas Quick, boys An ecstasy of fumbling, adjustment the clumsy helmets just in snip But someone lifelessness was yelling out and stumbling And floundring like a man in advance or lime Dim, done the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. With Owen being able to grab the readers attention, he is able to use this imagery to create a sense of emotion towards the readers as they look to find a deeper consciousness of the war.Assonance of the terms ing helps to associate the feeling of what was happening at that time where he expresses the scene as guttering, choking, drowning when his friends where being drowned in the green harmful gases described as green sea to emphasis that sense of dying helplessly. The ebullience that own incorporates into his metrical composition expresses his own opinions and thoughts of the pitifulness and stupidity of war when he says My friend, you would not tell with such high zest and this is an indication to hat he feels about outsiders trying to explain what it was like without even being their to experience it original hand. To understand the war, the poetry of Owen directs his insights of the war straight to the readers where his descriptive language and emotive scenery create the images of a first hand experience and this is how Owens poetry brands emotions and melts the images of emotion into the readers minds through his thoughts and experiences.In relation to Owens Dulce Et Decorum Est, the poem Anthem for Doomed Youth uses a range of techniques to embed emotions into the mods of readers. Owen captivates the readers attention through a wide range of imagery where passing-bells for these who die as kine? grasps the minds readers to create a scene of dying cows to mimic the deaths of soldiers and the disquiet of death and war through stuttering rifles rapid rattle where the alliteration captures the readers attention whilst still creating that image of death and loss.The poem Anthem for Doomed Youth is quite an a sad story of tears and sorrow where by Owen speaks about The pallor of girls brows shall be their pall which indicates how the sad expressions of girls eyebrows are the only thing that they can share that is common to both sides. The excessive use of avatar dims the horror of the war to allow readers to understand the pain through metaphors explaining passing-bells for these who die as cattle? , and wailing shells and drawing-down of blinds which signify the closing of the soldiers eyes in death and wailing shells are dead men in the ocean floating by one by one withou t anything able to be done about it and this is how Owen further expresses his feelings of pity and stupidity on war. Owen uses incarnation and emphasis in his poetry to allow his emotions and thoughts to be branded into the minds of the readers and to allow them to grasp the sense of pithiness of war.In conclusion, Owens poetic insights in Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth allow readers to grasp the experiences of war and a sense of emotion towards what Owen would have been feeling throughout the war. Owen way of communicating to the outside world away from war is effective in change him to capture the minds of readers and lead them into a state of embedding his insights into their minds so that they can store up s deeper understanding of the lives of soldiers in world war 1.