'Compare and Contrast Poems\r'

'The Underlying loyalty ab out War Warâ€sometimes represent frivolouslyâ€may be more that the humankind expects it to be. It is filled with gruesome and intolerable scenes that may non even be appropriate to discuss. Wilson Owen, in transforming the mainstream ideas, branches out and discusses the horrific side of fight that people would non expect. In â€Å"Anthem for deuced youth” and â€Å"dulce et decorousness est,” Wilson Owen strategically manipulates diction to illustrate the theme of the truthfulness of warfarefare, and in doing this, sheds a light on the unutterable impact that war has.\r\nWilson utilizes strong connotations of al-Qurans in both of his poesys. In â€Å"Anthem for Doomed Youth” the claim says a lot roughly its content. The title itself has significant intent of assonance. The expression is intended to be drawn out, and set a depres infernog peevishness which parallels to the subject of war itself. The title also ind icates that this is a national thing, everyone is a part of it: â€Å"Anthem”. The word signifies a national anthem, where everybody joins in and tears pride from it. The poem does not parallel that the soldiers took pride to fight in the war.\r\nThe word anthem connotates a sacred strain or song of praise; which alludes to church where anthems are sometimes heard, and where funerals take place. This then shows that the poem in itself is an anthem as well. Wilson then goes on to notwithstanding question the â€Å"passing-bells for these who die as cattle” (1). The use of the word cattle suggests a mass get or a collection of people in a group. It also implies that the men in the war were treated care cattle, basically dehumanizing them as people. â€Å"Dulce et decorousness est” also has delivery with intensional meanings.\r\nThe repetition of crosscurrent implies the dangers that are on the battlefield. Owen writes, â€Å"… occupation shot† / â€Å"the parentage came gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs” (6, 21-22). The blood paints a gruesome picture of purport in the war. The first four words of the help stanza, â€Å"Gas! Gas! Quick, boys”’ are disjointed, fractured and monosyllabic (9). This connotes a feeling of panic and terror. The use of such verbs assign â€Å"flound’ring” adds a sense of helplessness and inability. Owen is attempt to illustrate the simple truth to the audience; war does not make men, it breaks them.\r\nThe strong connotation of words lends way for imagery to unfold. In â€Å"Anthem for Doomed Youth,” Wilfred Owen tells that â€Å"only the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle can line of gab out their hasty orisons” (3-4). The poet starts to reveal the realism of war through alliteration. As readers, one can render the sounds of the rifles as clearly as Owen intended us to. The rifles emphasize that the opposing troops did not tak e pity on the individuals they are trying to kill. In â€Å"dulce et decorum est,” Owen uses imagery by writing, â€Å"His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;” (line 20).\r\nIn this part of the poem, Owen talks about his â€Å" go” friend. Here, we see how graphic his friend looked, thus prescribed the fact of the gruesome nature of war. Sickening dustup is utilise to invoke the shocking image of a man literally dr sustaining in his own blood as the blood came â€Å"gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs” (22). This grotesque language is used to express the distasteful nature of the war. In his ii poems, Owen highlights the fact that war is not all that it is chalked up to be.\r\nHe does this by using strong connotative language which in turn reveals the imagery to the readers. In doing this, he wants the readers to get even a tinkers damn’s eye view of what he had to deal with every day. Certain phrases that the poet uses reflec t Owen’s own disgust of the war. It show the anger that he has about how the press illustrates the war to mislead people. The descriptions that he gives shows the shadow of war that he bore witness to; thereof recreating the images and showing the destruction of purity through war.\r\n'