War Used In Refugee Blues And Disabled

Our group decided to research "Should developed countries accept war refugees?" We decided this topic because of the current refugee crisis coming out of Syria. We decided to research this topic because it is a controversial topic that many politicians in the United States have been debating for quite some time. Prior to researching the topic I lacked a solid background on the issue of war refugees and what is being done to aid these individuals in their journey towards freedom.

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

Wilfred Owen, having participated in the war, sought to express his own experiences to everyone. In his poetry, Wilfred Owen expresses the outrages and horrors of war and the compassion for soldiers who sacrifice their lives. Throughout the use of poetic techniques, Owen manages to convey the barbarism of the war with extreme realism and evoke in the reader much more than disgust and sympathy. Through the use of poetic techniques, he allows the reader to empathize with his situation, thoughts, and emotions. Owen expresses himself with a dramatic and memorable voice; he manages to render imagery that is startling and emotionally-profound and convey horror and dismay of war. These poetic techniques can be seen in the three poems ‘Anthem for Doomed

This image is definitely not the glamorous picture of glory that, say army recruitment presents; worse, the soldiers are doing worse than civilians. As soon as the next stanza “[m]en marched asleep. Many had lost their boots” (5). They have lost their usual awareness and move mechanically; that doesn’t sound appealing! It gets worse: “[b]ut limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind” (6). So now they’re limping, apparently wounded, covered in blood, and can’t even see? It worsens further, “[d]runk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots/ Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind” (7-8). The soldiers are so exhausted it incapacitates them, and they can no longer hear the bullets being fired. This poem sounds like a distorted nightmare, except the speaker is living it, and even reliving the torment of the soldier’s death while he is unconscious. Owen’s wording expresses that the soldiers are merely men, deteriorating and inconceivably overwhelmed the opposite of positive war poetry containing glory and honor.

The tone that Owen uses is of a negative outlook on war & bitterness that was directed at the people who were involved in the rallying of troops to take up the fight (via propaganda) which he felt was not a truthful portrayal of the reality & horrors of the war that would greet them on the Western front. Stanza 2 and 3 describe the death of his mask less comrade in the gas attack & represents a prime example of his tone. "In all my dreams, before my helpless sight. He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning." (Owen15-16).

The outstanding poems That Dispute’s against war are Suicide in the trenches by Siegfried Sassoon, Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen , In Flanders Fields by John McCrae and Anthem of doom by Wilfred Owen. They all associate together to describe the horror and pain of what the fighters had to go through everyday, Also describe of what the nation have done to resolve this issues of death of the soldiers and lastly they helped me understand, how the whole idea of a soldier prospective and their experience of been treated and how they were pursueded to go to war. I felt that all of the poems has an influence on me, They all interpret on a solution that will never be solved.

One such difference lies in the divergent tones that the poets use in their individual poems. The tone in “Musée des Beaux Arts,” for example, is that of utter indifference towards the plight of Icarus. Perhaps this is because the event Auden is describing is merely happening in a painting and not actually happening in front of his persona, or perhaps Auden uses such a tone in order to further convey to his audience the lack of interest everyone else displays in regards to Icarus’ dilemma. An example of the unhurried and apathetic attitude everyone has in “Musée des Beaux Arts” is clearly shown when Auden writes, “While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along; / How, when the aged are reverently, passionately waiting / for the miraculous birth” (lns. 4-6). Auden writes these lines in order to show his readers how everyone is carrying on with their life in the manner that they always do, regardless of what tragedies may befall others.

Disabled is a poem made by Wilfred Owen that outlines the aftermath of war in the perspective of a teenaged

In the poem ‘Disabled’, poet Wilfred Owen portrays the horrors of war and the brutal aftermath by using powerful imagery, dramatic contrasts of pace and time, overwhelming irony and by creating a strong sense of sympathy for the soldier of this poem. The contrasts between health and illness, life and death feature greatly in the poem; this gives the reader a ‘before and after’ picture of the soldier’s (subject’s) life.

Poets from many civilisations over vast amounts of time are considered by many as the world’s greatest agents of change. One such poet is Wilfred Owen, who was a soldier of Great Britain during WW1. His poetry reflects his firsthand experience of the horrors of war and his sentiments against it. Wilfred Owen gave soldiers who were fighting in the trenches of WW1 a voice which dramatically changed the British Empire’s view on warfare as a whole. Today, ladies, gentleman, and students of the Brisbane Writers Festival, I am here to present an informative analysis on Owen’s revolutionary poems “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Disabled”, two of the many poems remembered in English history as some of his greatest work.

In this essay I will look at the two poems, explore what the poems are

When Owen displays the horrific scenes of war it shows how cruel war actually is. Owen used very good imagery to depict the death of soldiers, this is giving readers a feel of what soldiers endure on a day to day basis. A clear picture that is depicted in a horrible scene that is in the reader's’ mind, as seen in “watch the white eyes writhing” (19). The tragedies of war are also described as, “guttering, choking, drowning” (16). The repetition emphasizes the pain that the man is enduring. The presence of onomatopoeia illustrates the circumstances the soldier has when used in “gargling” (22). In this poem, war is shown to put people in an intense pain, a suffering that no one should have to endure.

Wilfrid Owen’s poem “Disabled” and Robert Frost’s poem “Out! Out!” both portray a strong theme of loss throughout the poems. “Disabled” portrays a young man who has lost part of himself on the battlefields of World War One. His young once self-content was shattered when he came back from war. “Out! Out!-” is a dark and sinister poem where a young boy has an accident with a buzz saw, and losses his life. Both poems manage to captivate the reader’s attention, and also convey sympathy. Both Owen and Frost do this through many literal techniques such as similes, metaphors, rhyme structure, sentence structure, personification, contrast and many more.

Wilfred Owen's poems 'Disabled' and 'Mental Cases' each portray very different aspects of war and its consequences. As their names suggest, 'Mental Cases' is about the psychological effects war had on soldiers, whereas 'Disabled' focuses more on the physical consequences of war. However, in both poems the physical and mental costs are all intertwined, and although they describe very different situations, in many ways the poems are alike in their portrayal of the consequences of war overall.

The poems, “Disabled” and “The Applicant” both make use of imagery to identify dehumanization of spirit, however, both poets approach the idea with different images and perspectives. The anti-war poem exhibits the rejection felt by the wounded speaker, presumably Owen, through solemn imagery. The poem illustrates that no matter how honorable the speaker’s sacrifice appeared, his role in the post-war lifestyle is to be in the sidelines while people “touch him like some queer disease” (Owen 13) because of his disability. The poem further moves on to reveal