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    blood" This shows the attitude toward war as it Henry telling his men to do all these transformations‚ they have control over what they want to do. However‚ this is not the case as an alliteration "watch the white eyes writhing" in the war poem ’Dulce Et Decorum Est’ shows the reality of war. The "white eyes" creates an horrifying image of a soldier’s eye "writhing" and the soldier has no control over it because he is paralysed due to the gas. This makes the reader shocked because the poem has such graphic

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    In “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ Owen states the horror of the war has an impact the soldiers‚ demonstrating that the war is not like the lie we tell children. Conditions in the war were horrific‚ and disrupted a person’s mental condition‚ as well as their emotional condition. The poor conditions soldiers had to endure were sleeping on the ground under a thin blanket or sheet that hardly kept them safe from the cold or other weather conditions. Owen used a simile‚ “like old beggars under sacks” to describe

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    Owens’ war poetry demonstrates how much he hates war. He expresses his pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it. The tile of the poem means “Sweet and Fitting It Is”. This starts the poem off as being very dramatic as it describes the horrors war brings. The speaker of this poem is a soldier in the war. Line fourteen is the most important line for the speaker from this point on‚ the image of the “drowning” of a man overwhelms the speaker. Owen uses words that make the poem seem intense

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    Paper analysis on the Poem Dulcde et decorum est Wilfred Edward Salter Owen born 8 March 1893‚ died on 4 November 1918. Were an English soldier and poet (one of the leading poet in World War 1). Wilfred Owen was born at Plas Wilmot‚ a house in Weston Lane‚ near Oswestry in Shropshire‚ on 18 March 1893‚ of mixed English and Welsh ancestry. He was the eldest of four children‚ his siblings being Harold‚ Colin‚ and Mary Millard Owen. Line By Line Interpretation Lines 1-2 Beggars used to put everything

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    TMA 01 - DULCE ET DECORUM EST 1a. Reading about the soldiers during the gas attack was very disturbing and I realise that the poem is an account of the brutal sacrifice soldiers are expected to give. It made me think not only about the physical horrors of war but also the psychological. It made me question and consider the human cost of war. 1b. The poem was written to challenge the accepted perception of what it means to die fighting for your country. It describes the devastating effects

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    What is the Meaning of Sweet? What is the Meaning of Sweet? Dulce et Decorum Est‚ a poem written by Wilfred Owen‚ expels the definition of jolly‚ yet translates into “it is Sweet and”. What is so sweet? This question ponders the reader as they divulge into a whirlwind of Combat Gnosticism‚ the realistic ideal of the front hand experiences encountered in war. The title‚ so eloquently put‚ holds no truth to the cold and bitter reality witnessed by so many soldiers in first

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    A poem which I have recently read is: "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen. The main point Wilfred Owen tries to convey in this poem is the sheer horror of war. Owen uses many techniques to show his feelings‚ some of which I’ll be exploring. <br> <br>Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line during World War I. In the first stanza of Dulce Et Decorum Est he describes the men and the condition they are in and through his language shows that the soldiers deplore the conditions. Owen then

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    Comparision/ Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est All three poems are about the First World War but Peace has a highly patriotic view and displays a positive feeling about war whereas Anthem and Dulce concentrate more on the fact that people were killed for no particular reason and they also look at the true horrors of war. I will mainly be looking at the content and form of the three poems and comparing them to each other. Anthem and Dulce both portray Owen’s bitterness and

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    situations‚ which demand a response from the reader. This allows for Owen’s perspective on war to come through. It successfully does this through the poems ‘Mental Cases’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’.

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    horror of war. We are going to be looking at two of Wilfred Owen’s poems “Dulce et decorum est” and “Anthem for doomed youth” Two very dark poems laced with the horror of war‚ Both poems are dark and disturbing and use persuasive language such as metaphors‚ rhetorical questions and alliteration to get their point across‚ that war isn’t great and glamorous like all young men were told at that time. In “Dulce et decorum est” there is no structure to the stanza’s‚ as if Wilfred Owen is describing how

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