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Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front has a central theme of the harsh realities of war and a general negative attitude toward the subject. This attitude is synonymous of other war poems such as Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen and War Is Kind by Stephen Crane; however, the attitudes are revealed differently in all three pieces through each respective author’s use of diction, imagery, and tone.

Wilfred Owen’s poems, The Sentry and Dulce et Decorum Est, similarly depict a bitter criticism of war-related death. Owen uses graphic visual imagery to achieve a lamenting reaction from the audience with references to ‘wretches’ who ‘bled and spewed’. Owen depersonalises the enemy to avoid criticising the soldiers who were treated as dispensable objects, and aims to condemn the government who forced the soldiers in a position of ‘wanting to drown (them)selves for good’. Onomatopoeia is applied depicting the ‘whizz bangs’ and ‘hammering shells’ to encourage the reader to imagine the relentless nature of an attack. The physical act of dying is also described in Dulce et Decorum Est as the victim is ‘floundering like a man in fire or lime’ while ‘choking’ and ‘drowning’.

The author of “Anthem for Doomed Youth” leads his reader through his personal struggle and frustration of war. Owen has an abrasive approach when describing the death all around him and clearly expresses his anger with the “hasty orisons” for the dead. He speaks directly of battlefront in the first octet and then includes the home front in the second half of his sonnet. Owen’s purpose is not a commemoration of fallen soldiers. Rather, he divulges the disgust and disappointment of war. Like McCrae, Wilfred Owen paints a picture of the multitude of deaths. Back at the home front, “…each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.” We can construe that the author is not simply talking about preparing for bed in the evening, but rather lowering the blinds in a room where yet another dead soldier lies, as an indication to the community and out of respect for the soldier. There is a lack of “passing-bells for these who die as cattle….no prayers nor bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs.” Owen writes as though he feels that there is indifference among the death of his fellow soldiers.

Wilfred Owen wrote his poem “Exposure” after he experienced one of the coldest winters ever in the First World War. In “Exposure” we read about the suffering of being exposed to the elements on a daily basis without stop. Owen spent years as a platoon leader on the Western Front and experienced the despair and the inevitability of death, even though “nothing happens”. The key ideas of shared endurance, suffering and loss of faith are prevalent throughout the poem and give a sense of the suffering he and his platoon had to go through.

Wilfred Owens poem “Dulce et Decorum est” and Bruce Dawe’s poem “Homecoming” are poems from different wars, however both highlight the indignity of war. Owen’s poem is broken up into three sections, where he expresses the torture soldiers suffer

Literature and poetry are a reflection of society. The words are reflected in numerous feelings that we can almost touch and can be deeply felt in its reach. Most poets expressed their perception and emotion through their writings. Unfortunately the art and poetry describes one of the worst things that human can do to one another. The legalized murder called "war." Hence, this type of self-reflection called "poetry" has help create new fundamental ideas and values towards our society. In this essay, I will discuss the issue of the "War Poetry" during the "Great War" along with comparing and contrasting two talented renowned poets; Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967).

Poems written about World War One during the time of Wilfred Owen’s life would generally romanticize the war, leaving their readers with a sense of patriotism to their country and admiration for the soldiers it described. Owen’s poetry differs drastically from that of other war poets of his time, as his aim was to communicate the inhumanity of war by telling the truth of the brutal and agonizing experience in the trenches, instead of glorifying war in attempts to gather more recruits. His poems Anthem for Doomed Youth, The Sentry, The Last Laugh and Dulce et Decorum Est all contain the same angry outcry against war, and make their point by using complex and innovative forms of poetry, showing the desulte state of the soldiers, and bringing the atrocities of war alive for the audience.

One is to think of war as one of the most honorable and noble services that a man can attend to for his country, it is seen as one of the most heroic ways to die for the best cause. The idea of this is stripped down and made a complete mockery of throughout both of Wilfred Owen’s poems “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. Through his use of quickly shifting tones, horrific descriptive and emotive language and paradoxical metaphors, Owen contradicts the use of war and amount of glamour given towards the idea of it.

In the poem Exposure by Wilfred Owen, Owen has used some language techniques to appeal to my imagination by using personification, repetition and alliteration. By analysing the poems language techniques in-depth to see a bigger picture of how traumatising their experience's during the war were like and how severely nature's wrath tormented the soldiers, and to see what the poem is trying to convey. Owens most important message in the poem is to avoid war at all cost because of the harshness of nature and how tormenting it

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

In most war poetry, both physical and psychological perspectives are highlighted for the reader to see. The author Siegfried Sassoon wrote “They” as a conversation between the narrator and the Bishop, indicating the difference of perspectives. As wars keep being fought, the present-day message has become ‘what effect has war had on our soldiers.’ As this movement becomes increasingly bigger with more soldiers defending their countries and the possibility of another World War on the horizon, it is important to see the faults war has created versus the ideals of the majority over the years, yet this is being ignored by society as it is now a part of a game.

Wilfred Owen’s diction creates unusual and horrific view of war, and its consequences. Owen begins the poem with “What passing-bells for these who died as cattle” (1). Owen sees the dying soilders as cattle, which make it seem inhuman, and death with no cause, making human seem like animals. Owen also uses these instead of those, creates a sense of closeness, putting the reader on the battlefield. He continues “Only the monstrous anger of the guns / Only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle” (2-3).

“In his poetry, Wilfred Owen depicts the horror and futility of war and the impact war has on individuals.”

War is not heroic. War is sickness, struggle, and death. This is the message that poet and World War I soldier Wilfred Owen wanted to instill in his people back home. Those back home talked of glory and national pride and rooted for their soldiers, however, they were unaware of the horrors these soldiers witnessed and experienced. The soldiers and their people back home were not only separated by distance but by mental barriers, which Owen showcases in his poetry. Owen’s use of personification in “Anthem for Doomed Youth” degrades the soldiers to objects to show how the war dehumanized them to intentionally create a disconnect between the audience and the soldiers.

Wilfred Owen’s poem develops the ideas of death in Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce Et Decorm Est by using symbolism and descriptive language. Owen spoke about death in a range of ways, from the horrors that it entails when one is close, to the coldness and disconnect one feels when they have no idea what price they are paying. Owen uses symbolism when writing “What passing bells for these who die as cattle?” This piece of writing shows what the soldiers really are to people giving orders and commands for soldiers to run towards their deaths, cattle. They are unimportant, expendable and pawns in the battle. From this perspective of death, it is a part of war, unavoidable and each death means very little. On the opposite side of things, Owen’s