How Does Wilfred Owen Use Literary Devices Exploit War Literature?

Literary devices are employed to give the readers a realistic picture of what they are reading. Literary devices benefit war literature by painting a picture in your mind, so you can visualize what horrific events the soldiers are going through. All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” exploit literary devices to affirm the horrors of war. Erich Maria Remarque and Wilfred Owen emphasize poetic language with the use of personification, simile, and imagery.
An idea or animal that is nonhuman, is bequeathed with human virtues. In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front he emphasizes poetic language by giving the idea human virtues. Remarque refers to nature as a girl “one begins to observe Nature and to love her” (Remarque 189). Remarque says love as referring nature to a woman. As Remarque referred nature to a woman this is giving nature a humanistic quality. However, Wilfred Owen does the same thing with a soldier “deaf even to the
In Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front he uses similes to compare the soldiers to objects. In this case Remarque compares Paul and his fellow comrades to lightning, “the command came: “Change at Löhne!” “and like lightning everyone scrambled under the bed to the opposite side” (Remarque 43). Throughout the novel Remarque uses similes and other various literary devices to express his poetic language. Wilfred Owen and Erich Maria Remarque are alike because they both try to convey their poetic language by using similes. Poet Wilfred Owen wrote the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est”. Owen expresses his poetic language by comparing the stumbling soldier to a man stumbling in fire or lime. The soldier that was caught in the middle of the gas attack was stumbling around and started “floundering like a man in fire or lime” (Owen 12). However the use of similes benefits both author’s works to convey their poetic