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    as smooth as masts… wrapped like panetone"‚ as does Plath in her poem‚ Balloons. Orwell discusses the death of his mother and the events post her death‚ in the first stanzas expressing his concern on the meaning of life‚ just as Owen does in Dulce Et Decorum Est. Orwell uses a vivid use of colour to add contrasts to the poem‚ "crazy yellow and azure sea-sleds…black and gold casket was like Napoleon’s… Dour and dark"‚ unlike Owen who does not often use colour in his poems. Sailing Home from Rapollo

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    In document B “Dulce et Decorum Est”‚ in this poem it states “Dulce et Decorum Est‚ pro patria mori” which means it is sweet and right to die for your country. By reading the title of this poem you think the main idea of the text is how war is a good thing‚ but in reality the poem describes how gruesome

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    first hand how ruthless the great war was‚ he saw countless people dead and disfigured and saw front line action throughout the conflict. He himself suffered shell shock to such a degree that he had to spend time in an Edinburgh hospital. ‘Dulce et decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen‚ is one of the most famous of the World War One poems and it is critical of the war itself and its name is taken and is written as

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    Dulce Et Decorm As much as we hate to have this happen most bad things can be interrupted into good thing. Some people like to think of “wars” as good events while others do not. Some think of them as ways that have given us freedom‚ hope and safety. However‚ in Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen he interprets the war as a sweet yet beautiful thing. Owen writes this poem to show the negative consequences of war. He does this by mimicking the war as a sweet yet beautiful thing. He describes

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    People are risking their lives to save the country that they love. Good comes and shows itself it all kinds of ways and war can turn out to be one of them. “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” written by Wilfred Owen‚ and‚” Who’s for the Game?” written by Jessie Pope both show ways it can be harmful but good. (THESIS). In the first poem‚ “Dulce et Decorum Est‚” Owen has a very strong introduction against war. Owen has very vivid images written in very descriptive words that show just how bad the war is at this

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    Ok what I have got here today is a detailed speech and I intend to explain two poems “Disabled” and “Dolce et Decorum est.”‚ both written by Wilfred Owen. I would choose these two poems to be in an anthology because I found the poems to be very dramatic and extremely detailed. Owen intends to shock us by demonstrating what a soldier might expect in a situation between life and death. He is not afraid to show his own feelings. Wilfred Owen is an anti-war poet and expresses his ideas and feelings through

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    comparing the poems ‘The Charge Of The light Brigade’ By Alfred Lord Tennyson and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ By Wilfred Owen. I will be evaluating the points of the language‚ emotions‚ the subject and the purpose of both of the poems. I will contrast both and then conclude what poem I believe presents a better picture of war to the reader. Poem 1 will be The Charge Of The light Brigade and poem 2 will be Dulce et Decorum Est. First off I shall talk about the purpose of the poems. Poem 1’s purpose‚ in my

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    Read and Compare and Contrast the Following Poems by Wilfred Owen: [It Was a Navy Boy]‚ Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est. <br> <br>Wilfred Owen was a poet who was widely regarded as one of the best poets of the World War one period. <br> <br>Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th of March 1893‚ at Plas Wilmot‚ Oswestry‚ on the English Welsh border; he was the son of Tom and Susan Owen. During the winter of 1897-8 Tom Owen‚ Wilfred’s father was reappointed to Birkenhead‚ and with that

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    Dulce et Decorum Est - Literature Notes.    The physical structure of this poem has been altered from the original layout in the text. 3.Bent double‚ 1.like old beggars under sacks Knock-kneed‚ 1.coughing like hags‚ we cursed through sludge‚ Till on the 4.haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. 2.Men marched asleep. 2.Many had lost their boots But limped on‚ blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; 5.deaf even to the hoots

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    Siegfried Sasson‚ Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfried Owen‚ Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen‚ ‚ Happy Warrior by Herbert Read‚ Before Action by H.N Hodgson‚ Back by Wilfried Gibson‚ and The Soldier by Rupert Brooke. The numbers of poems are seven. This research uses a qualitative method. The result of the study that the theme on British poet are Death (on How to Die poem)‚ Sadness (on Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est poems)‚ Traumatic (on Happy Warrior poem)‚ Wonder (on Before

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