Dulce Et Decorum Est Essay Example

in time. By telling us things like that it alerts our senses and we imagine that we're choking and that it could be us that are choking and that your insides are being burned by the gas that has been breathed in.

By telling us about the person that died from breathing in the gas, it shocks us that when we are breathing we may inhale something that may end up in killing us. He also alerts our senses by saying "As under a green sea I saw him drowning," this alerts our senses because we can imagine ourselves seeing someone drown. Wilfred Owen puts dramatic similes into his poetry. "Like a devils face sick of sin" is quite dramatic and gives it an evil sound. I cannot imagine a devil being sick of sin, but I think that the face would e distorted and twisted.

He also uses harsh constantan sounds. This is reflecting the sounds of the firing of rifles and shells; they would be short sharp sounds. All these things give us a picture in our head of life in the trenches. This helps a lot to the horror of war as an image is more powerful then words. , and giving us the ability to picture the scene in the poem is giving us a good impression of war and its horrors. The point of the poem was to deliver the horrors of war to the public so that they would stop seeing the war as such a patriotic adventure.

I think Wilfred Owen manages to get his point well in the poem. "The General" is a bright poem with a bouncy rhythm. This

may sound like it doesn't present the horror of war very well but it adds the irony to poem as the message contrasts with the light hearted bouncy rhythm. By saying the General in the poem and Siegfried Sassoon gives the impression that he is a figure not one of the men, it gives the impression that the men don't really see him as a real person and he doesn't really mingle with the men a lot.

By calling the men he spoke to Harry and Jack he made the men seem more real than the officer and friendlier. "The men that he smiled at are most of them dead," shows the horror of war by the fact that a man can smile at a group of people in the morning and soon most of them would die. The mass killing that happened in the war was horrible and the poem blames t on the officer that Harry and Jack where dead because it says "But he did for them both by his plan of attack. " The attitude of war in this poem is that the Officers were to blame for most of the men dying.

I am given the impression that the men weren't fond of the officers as Siegfried Sassoon says, ""He's a cheery old card," grunted Harry to Jack" this makes me think that they didn't like the officers because Harry grunted to Jack and because if you like someone you don't grunt about them. As in "Dulce et Decorum est" the men weren't at the standard of health that you would expect a soldier to be in. I get the impression that

they were tired and possibly injured because "As they slogged up to Arras," slogging isn't a thing that a soldier would be expected to do.

If you had a vision of a soldier then you imagine him marching along, head high, proud, but slogging up to Arras doesn't give the right impression. This is the same message as "Dulce et Decorum est" when Wilfred own says, "Towards our distant rest began to trudge. " The structure of the poem helps with the presentation of the horror of war because of the rhythm. The rhythm contradicts the messages the words give. The words are telling us that the men are slogging along, that most of them that had been seen by the officer were dead and that "Harry and Jack" were dead.

Siegfried Sassoon left a blank line in the poem this gives dramatic pause. It has them walking up to Arras then a blank line then "But he did for them both by his plan of attack. " "The General" different to "Dulce et Decorum est" as it focuses on who is to blame for the soldiers dying as opposed to how horrible the deaths of the soldiers were. It is the same in describing how tired the soldiers were and they both give impressions you wouldn't expect, like how the soldiers are moving. "For the Fallen" was written by Laurence Binyon and is probably one of the most famous war poems.

It is said in remembrance services all over the world. It is said at the Menin Gate every night. It shows the horror of war in the way that it is almost calm when talking about

the death of the young soldiers. It is almost a quiet poem and very respectful. The lines that most affect me are "They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old: Age hall not weary them nor the year condemn. " This is makes me feel sad as they cannot grow old because they were killed at a young age. They never got the chance to grow old.

They never had chance to raise their families. This to me is the true horror of war. Not that they just died but the fact that they missed the chance to see their families grow up. "For the Fallen" is very different from "Dulce et Decorum est" and "The General" as it is doesn't directly talk about the horror of war. It talks about how the soldiers will not grow old and how the years won't condemn them but not directly about anyone killing them or how they died, all he says is that they died and that we won't forget them or the fact that they died.

Laurence Binyon keeps it very impersonal by not using any names whatsoever. He chooses to keep all soldiers anonymous. This gives me the impression that the war was impersonal and that the soldiers were anonymous and unknown, that people didn't care for the individuals that they only cared for the outcome of the war. This poem makes me think of the soldiers as a mass group yet that in this group there were individuals that all had name although they are not said.

The line "Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow" makes it seem that these

men were shot down in their youth with no defects to their bodies, that they were perfectly able bodied and if they hadn't been killed in the war that they would have gone on to have families and grow old with their wives. "They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted" this is saying that even to the end they were brave and ready even though they didn't know what was coming.

This to me shows the horror of war in a different way, by waiting for the fighting and battles that they didn't know when they were coming is a lot different to having a surprise attack like in "Dulce et Decorum est" when a as shell is dropped by the trenches and everyone has to put their gas masks on. They weren't waiting for an attack so there wasn't the anxiety of waiting, unlike many people had.

In "For the Fallen" there is a feeling of honour and pride for these young men, although they lost their lives in a horrid way they will always be remembered and the poem is looking forward saying, "We will remember them. "Dulce et Decorum est" is saying about the time that it was happening so it is a contrast in they way that the put the horror of war across. "Tea-time in Portsmouth 1982" is a modern war poem about someone's father dying in the Sheffield. This shows the horror of war in the way that now war is so universally accepted that a child can come home from school saying that a girl at school has lost her dad in a ship that was blown up

and it seems no big deal.

The girl in the poem comes home and says to the person picking her up from school that a girl at school was going to Italy but couldn't anymore as, "Her dad was on the Sheffield. What's for tea? " The fact that a death means so little to a child is very shocking as you expect that an adult would find it less shocking because they have lived through fighting and the like so they would find it more normal. This could also be interpreted as the child is innocent so they don't understand about war and death.

This poem is very different from "Dulce et Decorum est" as "Dulce et Decorum est" is a poem written in 1914-1918 and "Tea-Time in Portsmouth 1982" was written in the 1980's so they style and structure of the poem will be different as the language has changed. "Dulce et Decorum est" is a poem about the direct horror of war and how horrible the fighting was and how the actual conditions affected the men whereas "Tea-time in Portsmouth 1982" is more about the impact that war can have on the families and the plans they had.

In the poem it says "Who said this year they're going to Italy? They won' be going now. She's been away. " This isn't the same horror of war that the people in "Dulce et Decorum est" experienced, they experienced the direst horrors of 1914 war, they heard the shells dropping, they saw their friends die; they had to live in the trenches. Modern day war doesn't happen like this so the only people left to witness

the horrors after they are dead are the family who have lost a son or a father or a brother.

The poem is set out simply. It has two stanzas and has a simple rhyming pattern. I think this gives it a very simple understated mood that you would get when a child speaks to you about their day at school. This gives over the affect that war is only sad for those who understand it. The child who is speaking doesn't really understand the concept of war. I am given this impression because the child speaks of everything else first, and then last mentions the girl whose father died.