Speech – Good Morning students and teachers today I will be talking about some Wilfred Owen Poems that conveyed the experiences of wars. The two poems that will be discussed are “Dulce Et Decrorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. Many of his poems show that wars are bad and it is not needed. Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th march 1893 and died on 4 November 1918, he is best known as one of the most powerful war poets, who detailed the reality and horrors of the First World War. Owen's first experience of the war was in hospitals treating the wounded soldiers.
Trench warfare is the basis behind All Quiet on the Western Front. This novel was published in 1929 by Erich Maria Remarque. Remarque himself fought in World War I, and based some of his experiences in the book. After the rise of the Nazi regime, All Quiet on the Western Front, was one of the first books they burned because it was a betrayal to the soldiers who fought in World War I. One reason could have been the way the negative effects of war show through the use of Irony, Symbolism, and Metaphors.
He was awarded a military cross and was well-known before the war. He was born in 1886 and died in 1967. The poem of his I am doing is Attack. I am going to how both poets portray the unseen horrors of the war. I am going to do this by indicating what methods and techniques they use to affect the reader and make them feel emotion towards the soldiers.
The subject of ‘For the Fallen’ is an elegy reminding us how many men died so that we may live. ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke is about a soldier’s relationship with his country whilst at war. Brooke was an active soldier who was writing about his own patriotic bond. The title ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ implies that there is no chance for the generation coming of age during World War I. The word ‘Anthem’ is used because it is a song of praise, which celebrates the soldiers’ heroism.
It is sweet and meet to die for ones country, better known as Dulce et Decorum Est is a great poem written by war poet Wilfred Owen. It involves a tragic war situation. It is easily understood. The poem also has a very unique sound to it. Wilfred Owen was born on March 18th in 1893.He was the eldest of four children born in Oswestry.
How poetry of World War 1 reveals the varying attitudes to war that existed at the time from the two war poems Margaret Peterson’s “A Mothers Dedication” and Siegfried Sassoon’s “Counter Attack. A Mothers’ Dedication displays the patriotism during the time whereas Counter Attack depicts the reality of war and the horrors faced by the soldiers such as Sassoon in the war. These two poems display the binary attitudes that people had to war at the time. “A Mother’s Dedication”, by Margaret Peterson reflects the strongly nationalistic, propaganda driven views that mobilized Britain in response to the war. The ballad in itself has a unique attitude that one is destined to fight in the war, revealed in the metaphor of birth, in “your birth has brought you” and the militaristic “I fought to give you birth.” A military attitude is furthered through the idea of determination and patriotism; in words such as “uphold” “lead” “shield” and “fight” which highlight the attitudes of heroism and “honour” that existed within British propaganda.
At the outbreak of World War 1 hundreds of thousands of young men enlisted in the Army. This was fuelled by the jingoistic glorification of war and associated propaganda. This included posters of strong fit and brave young men wearing smart uniforms believing ‘Dulce et Decorum Est. (it is honourable to die for one’s country) Siegfried Sassoon, and to a lesser degree Wilfred Owen believed this propaganda and both enlisted in 1915. In this essay I will explore the emotions and moods portrayed in two poems, ‘Suicide in the Trenches’ by Siegfried Sassoon and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen.
In Robert Southey’s “The Battle of Blenheim”, the writer uses age and experience as a method of portraying two very different perspectives of the war that took place in Blenheim. Throughout the ballad, there is a very noticeable phrase that’s mentioned many times. Old Kasper, a man who is a father, has experienced the effects of war, and is literally named “Old” for the sake of being only portrayed as a man experienced in life, always refers to the battle as a “famous victory” or a “great victory”. It becomes more and more evident this phrase was a result of conditioning and propaganda post-war to mask its tragedies when Kasper’s son asks him about the war. "Now tell us all about the war, And what they fought each other for."
Compare the ways in which Owen portrays the impact of war on soldiers in these two poems: You should consider: -The situations Owen describes -The feelings he conveys -The language he uses and its affects Wilfred Owen was an English poet-one of the leading poets of the First World War and a soldier. Being a soldier himself during the war, he gave his personal views and interpretation on the war in each of his poems. His poems reflected the realism of the war, in contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the majority of patriotic poets such as Rupert Brooke. Both Conscious and the Letter portray his individual thoughts diversely, and leave an emotional impact on the reader. One predominant comparison between the two poems is the environment each poem is set in and how the two characters react to them.
Identify what you consider to be the authors main purpose in producing each of the texts you have studied and explore, in depth, one or two main techniques used to achieve this purpose. The poems ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘Suicide in the trenches’ by Siegfried Sassoon used the techniques of personal pronouns and irony to convey the poets feelings towards war. Before Owen and Sassoon all war poetry had been patriotic and was used to encourage recruitment of young men. However both Owen and Sassoon had witnessed the horrors of trench warfare first hand and their poetry was therefore realistic about the harsh realities of war. Owen commented on his poetry that ‘my subject is war, and the pity of it… all a poet can do is warn.’ Owen and Sassoon were both trying to warn young men against war and inform the public on how brutal and disgusting war actually is In both poems, after describing the obscene conditions of war and the impact that these conditions had on the soldiers, the poets dedicated a stanza to condemning the reader on any encouragement they may have had towards young men going to war.