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    Wilfred Owens’ poetry on war can be described as a passionate expression of Owen’s outrage over the horrors of war and pity for the young soldiers sacrificed in it. His poetry is dramatic and memorable‚ whether describing shame and sorrow‚ such as in ’The Last Laugh’‚ or his description of the unseen psychological consequences of war detailed in ’The Next War’ and ’Anthem for Doomed Youth’. His diverse use of instantly understandable technique is what makes him the most memorable of the war poets

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    Wilfred Owen Concept: Owen challenges public perception of war and evokes moral outrage. He portrays the horrors‚ mistreatment of the soldiers and brutality felt throughout war. Owen wanted to inform‚ awaken and enlighten his reader about what war was really like. Owen shows us both his experiences throughout war and the soldiers as he attempts to show it from their perspective. He wanted to highlight the sacrifices‚ ugliness and barbarity of war as a way of arousing awareness. Owens use of similes

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    How do any two or three poems deal with the themes of mourning‚ loss‚ or memory?’ Wilfred Owen: Anthem for Doomed Youth and Futility. The first Word War which took place mostly in Europe from 1914 to 1918 left millions dead and shaped the modern world. After World War I poets started to write about their experiences. Most of these poets had been soldiers who wrote the poetry to reflect the horror of their experiences in an immediate and realistic way. Trench warfare in particular and the

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    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3669019/Wilfred-Owen-The-soldiers-poet.html feature article Jeremy Paxman explores the context and importance of the famous historical figure Wilfred Owen‚ known for basing his poetry on the horrific reality of war compared to the public view on war and soldiers. Paxman talks about the hardships faced by Owen‚ through his character and changes‚ to the experiences he faced throughout. The famous “war poet” Wilfred Owen was especially known for poetry being very

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    How Does Wilfred Owen Create Sympathy in his Poem “Disabled”? Wilfred Owen uses a variety of poetic devices to make the reader feel sympathetic for the disabled person portrayed in the poem. Many of Owens ideas of sympathy are not easy to find and the reader picks them up more subliminally unless he were to study the poem. Firstly‚ the most important point to convey sympathy is the theme of retrospect and tense in this piece and it runs clearly throughout. Owen starts the first stanza in the

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    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

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    antiwar poetry of Wilfred Owen "And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime/Dim through the misty panes and thick green light/As under a green sea‚ I saw him drowning."(Owen 12-14). In his poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" Wilfred Owen describes a scene he witnessed in the first world war. After writing about what he had seen‚ he then states his belief‚ that Horace’s quotation (which is also the name of the poem) is untrue‚ and if even the most ardent hawk would have seen what Owen and his comrades had

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    Personal Response to Wilfred Owen One of Wilfred Owen’s poem is Dulce et Decorum est. The title of this poem is roughly translated to: It is honorable and beautiful to die for your country‚ the poem itself basically speaks of how this is a lie. It takes you through a small story at the end of which it explains in gruel poetry the death of a soldier with effective language that helps inspire fear “And watch the white eyes writhing in his face‚ His hanging face‚ like a devil’s sick of sin;” I believe

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    Wilfred Owen was a 20th century English poet who fought in World War I and died just one week before the war had ended‚ aged 25. However‚ even long after his death‚ his poetry has still lived on in the minds of those he helped. Poems such as ’Dulce et Decorum est’‚ ’Mental cases’ and ’Disabled’ portray the devastating volume of death on the battlefield and the psychological and physical impacts soldiers endured during and after war. These are the key features that intensify the meaning of his

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    recover the traumatizing experience in war. This contrasts with the fact that the soldiers now have time and “joy to spare” (line 6) whereas the dead soldiers did not. Sassoon describes the war as a “bloody game” (line 7)‚ a juxtaposition that shows how the soldiers were being

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