Wilfred Owen Speech Analysis
Compose a speech to an audience of senior students that examines the particular ways the poet has communicated ideas
Good morning senior students, if i gave each of you a pen and paper and gave you the question examine that particular ways the poet had communicated ideas in example Wilfred Owens War Poems and others how many of you could write a good HSC response? Not many well today i will be addressing this question for you and hopefully this will therefore assist you.
Wilfred Owen uses poetry to challenge public perceptions on the war as well as to inform, awaken and enlighten his readers about what war was really like, the horrors, the pity and the waste of war, through exploring the emotional and psychological impact on the men who …show more content…
The repetition of “murders” in “hair of murders” and “multitudinous murders the once witnessed gives a moral emphasis to the agonies they have been forced to endure. The alliteration and polysyllabic word stressed the mass deaths that have triggered his mental case. The repeated “blood” imagery accumulates through out the poem, just alike the war, which further accumulates in our minds the horror of what was witnessed. The alliteration of “hilarious, hideous” and juxtaposition of similes make the image more confronting to readers. the internal rhyme of “batter” and “shatter” becomes reminisnent of the sounds of the battle field giving the reader further a visual into the war. Wilfred owen challenges the reader “therefore” to agree that the state of these men is linked to the war experiences. The pity of the war is shown in “dulce et decorum est” which examines on the exhaustion of soliders on the front and the horrors of a gas attack. The title “dulce et decorum est” latin for “it is sweet and proper” respresent the old world values he is not in favour of.
The use of imagery as spoken about is also vividly apart of this poem to explore the exhaustion of the soliders through the simile “bent double like old beggers under sacks” describing them to show their desperation and utter exhaustion through the irony in “old” as they are only young soldiers as well as “sacks” suggesting the poverty of life felt by these
Good morning senior students, if i gave each of you a pen and paper and gave you the question examine that particular ways the poet had communicated ideas in example Wilfred Owens War Poems and others how many of you could write a good HSC response? Not many well today i will be addressing this question for you and hopefully this will therefore assist you.
Wilfred Owen uses poetry to challenge public perceptions on the war as well as to inform, awaken and enlighten his readers about what war was really like, the horrors, the pity and the waste of war, through exploring the emotional and psychological impact on the men who …show more content…
The repetition of “murders” in “hair of murders” and “multitudinous murders the once witnessed gives a moral emphasis to the agonies they have been forced to endure. The alliteration and polysyllabic word stressed the mass deaths that have triggered his mental case. The repeated “blood” imagery accumulates through out the poem, just alike the war, which further accumulates in our minds the horror of what was witnessed. The alliteration of “hilarious, hideous” and juxtaposition of similes make the image more confronting to readers. the internal rhyme of “batter” and “shatter” becomes reminisnent of the sounds of the battle field giving the reader further a visual into the war. Wilfred owen challenges the reader “therefore” to agree that the state of these men is linked to the war experiences. The pity of the war is shown in “dulce et decorum est” which examines on the exhaustion of soliders on the front and the horrors of a gas attack. The title “dulce et decorum est” latin for “it is sweet and proper” respresent the old world values he is not in favour of.
The use of imagery as spoken about is also vividly apart of this poem to explore the exhaustion of the soliders through the simile “bent double like old beggers under sacks” describing them to show their desperation and utter exhaustion through the irony in “old” as they are only young soldiers as well as “sacks” suggesting the poverty of life felt by these