Comparing and Contrasting Poems by Wilfried Owen and Robert Frost

Explain how particular features of at least two of Wilfred Owen's poems set for study interact to affect your response to them.

Could make a small boy dizzy” (Lines 1-2). Meaning The father has been drinking, and not just a little. He's so intoxicated that even the smell of his breath could make a small boy, like his son, feel a bit woozy. This gives a first impression of a father being intoxicated who has the ability to harm the child. For most it is not a great situation when a drunken adult presents himself to a child. This poem could be seen as a depiction of a young boy’s experience of abuse from his father. “But I hang on like death” seems to show a child’s frightful feeling from having to face a drunken father. The image in my head here is that of the father and his child waltzing around the kitchen with the boy having to hold on like death. The word death could have been intended to emphasize the helplessness of the child against his drunken

Wilfred Owen’s poetry is shaped by an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences. In at least 2 poems set for study, explore Owen’s portrayal of suffering and pity.

In the poems “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and “The Bright Lights of Sarajevo” by Tony Harrison, both poems present the realities of war. However, both differ in terms of setting and contrast that help depict the similarities of their theme. Disabled takes place within World War I as Owen vividly describes the subject’s amputation. The sounds of the children playing hysterically causes him to reflect back to when he once was whole. However, within the Bright Lights of Sarajevo although Harrison discusses the consequences of partaking in war within the town, he illustrates the way in which life goes on regardless the horrific impact which has been left behind. Through use of setting and contrast, both poets contribute in presenting the theme

Wilfred Owen can be considered as one of the finest war poets of all times. His war poems, a collection of works composed between January 1917, when he was first sent to the Western Front, and November 1918, when he was killed in action, use a variety of poetic techniques to allow the reader to empathise with his world, situation, emotions and thoughts. The sonnet form, para-rhymes, ironic titles, voice, and various imagery used by Owen grasp the prominent central idea of the complete futility of war as well as explore underlying themes such as the massive waste of young lives, the horrors of war, the hopelessness of war and the loss of religion. These can be seen in the three poems, ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and

The two poems are different whether in style, language, or mood. This could be firstly because of the times and positions the two writers were in. As Owen was a soldier, he spent months in the revolting conditions in the trenches near the front line.

Both poems give a different impression of war. Wilfred Owen writes about the pity of war and his responsibility to warn other generations of the horror and propaganda of it, whereas Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem is about the honour, courage and glory of fighting in a war.

Robert Frost was an American poet that first became known after publishing a book in England. He soon came to be one of the best-known and loved American poets ever. He often wrote of the outdoors and the three poems that I will compare are of that “outdoors” type.

army when he was 22 years old. He was injured in a shell explosion in

The poems “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen and “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” by Randall Jarrell have several things in common with each other. For one, both poems discuss some of the horrific aspects that war brings about in peoples’ lives and the feelings it will cause for those involved. They also illustrate the views of war by people in the two time periods, with many people actually believing it to be a glorifying prospect, which is revealed within the stanzas as being falsity. Each poem presents the way people were viewed during and after they served their time in the war, and how they were treated as human beings. All of these things come together to paint a picture of an era in time much different from the world we live in today, at

The sister prepares the evening meal, making her contribution to the family; and calls on the boy to come and eat. The saw in the boy?s hands was still running and when he took his attention away from his work, and that split second of carelessness cost him an extremity. His instincts raised his arm upward to keep all the blood from spilling out immediately. When he realized what was happening, the boy finally realized he was to young to be doing a man?s work. The boy ?saw all spoiled,? and now knew his whole childhood had vanished and it was impossible to get it back. The boy frantically called out to his sister to make the doctor keep his hand on. The boy?s body must have instantly gone into shock and not felt the absence of the hand. When the doctor arrived he gave him some ether to make him go to sleep. The little boy began to lose his pulse and soon he was a stranger to the world. The people surrounding the boy never expected the loss of his hand to tragically end the little boy?s life. Frost?s almost appalling casual description of death shocks the reader enough to make them think. ?Since they were not the one dead, turned to their affairs,? describes the environment of the survivors. They are forced to move on with their life and keep working because they cannot afford to stop and mourn.

Wilfred Owen uses a lot of sensory imagery through his poems typically making you feel unsettled at times from what he writes. Wilfred Owen is a famous world war 1 poet who wrote a lot about the war and what experiences you can experience from the war. Owen told the war how it actually was and not how the government made you feel like it was and this is what made him a famous poet as he brought in his personal experiences and made use of sensory imagery on the world war and made it very unsettling for people figuring out what war truly is.

“Compare and contrast “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke with “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen with regard to theme, tone, imagery, diction, metre, etc”

William Carlos Williams and Robert Frost are known as two of the greatest poets of their time and still highly regarded as two of the best poets of all time. Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco, California according to The Associated Press. William Carlos Williams was born in 1883 in Rutherford, New Jersey, according to the poetryfoundation.org. Both men died just two months apart in 1963. Williams is the author of the poem “Spring and All” and Frost is the author of “Dust of Snow”. These two poems

A theme of loss throughout the poem is the physical loss and the loss of life of the young boy. The poem starts with fricative sounds which creates a sinister undertone. The “Buzz saw snarled” as if the saw was a vicious predator hunting for its pray. The boy therefore is the prey. The innocent sound of the boy working with the saw is immediately recognized by the reader as an undertone for violence and danger. The third ling portrays a beautiful scene. “Sweet scented stuff” and “Five mountain ranges one behind the other” appeals to the sight and smell of the readers senses in a positive way. The sibilant letters evoke positivity of the day, making a contrast from the sinister opening. This calms us into a false sense of security, making the child’s death all the more unexpected. The young boy is coming to the end of the day when we first “see” what the boy is thinking in his head “Call it a day, I wish they might have said” shows the boys eagerness to stop his work. Suddenly as his sister calls him to “Supper”, the buzz saw jumped out of the boys hand and cut him. “At the word the saw…leaped out of the boy’s hand” shows that the “saw” is personified as a predator leaping at its prey for