Compare A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon and Dulce et Decorum est. by Wilfred Owen. Which poet presents the most powerful and moving pictures of World War 1? Essay

Owen and Sassoon, as well as being renowned anti-WW1 poets, also had a role as soldiers in the war. Although not together, they both fought against the German army, and knew, better than most, the terrible conditions that WW1 soldiers were faced with. It was probably their first hand experience that made them feel great pity and respect to other ‘ordinary’ soldiers, the ones still fighting, as well as the ones laid to rest. Owen and Sassoon also had a fierce hatred about them towards war enthusiasts feeling that they were sending hard-working men to their deaths and loathing the way that they wrote about the war when they themselves had not seen nor taken part in the war apart from sending people to it. I believe that Owen and Sassoon chose to write poetry   about the war as a way to express their feelings as well as a way to express their feelings as well as a way to contradict the propaganda and tell people what was really going on when the sent their relatives to war.
During ‘A Working Party’ by Sassoon, it starts of describing the way a man walked through the trenches, and by doing so, also described the conditions of the trenches in the first three verses. By the fifth verse, the man previously described, has become dehumanised and turned into ‘a jolting lump’ showing that in life he was a person, in death, a lump of flesh and bones. Going on, the next three verses are describing what the now deceased man was like, talking about his wife and children, picturing him as an ordinary man and how the only thing he had to look forward to was a ‘tot of rum’ to send him to sleep. In the last verse, Sassoon says the simplicity of how the man died and how quick his life ended, an ‘instant split’ and ’all went out’.
‘Dulce et Decorum est.’ is a very similar poem to ‘A Working Party’ as, for a start, it focuses mainly on one person and how he died. During the first paragraph, Owen also describes how men walked up the trenches and, in doing so describes the conditions...