Wilfred Owen

Intorordinary

Wilfren Owen's poetry is shaped by an intense focus on extradonary human experiences.

He focused on his first hand experiences of the realities of conflict and its emotional and psychological impact rather than any glorified trappings.

This is shown in his poem's "dulce et decorum est" and "Anthem for doomed youth" with an analysis of pitty and suffering.

Para1

- Pitty is shown in Owen's poetry in various ways. His didactic purpose was to expose the propagandist lies that enticed young men to enlist and to show how it dehumanised and brutalised them.

- For example in "Dulce Et Decorum Est" Owen uses emotive language to convey pity in his poem which makes it easy for the reader to envisage the soldiers physical condition, for example "He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning".

- He also uses hyperbole to exaggerate the soldiers common suffering "all went lame, all blind".

- Pitty is also shown in Owen's poem "Anthem For Doomed Youth". In this poem he compares a funeral service that is given to one who has died in battle to what would normally be given at home.

- He personifies the conflict, capturing " The monstrous anger of the guns... the shrill demented choirs of wailing shells" it seems that it was waste of life that was Owen's greatest concern.

- The use of pity in both poems creates a personal connection with the reader and draws them into the atmosphere.

Para2

- Owen also uses suffering in his poetry to awaken the social conscience and public outcry as a way to stop the senseless butchery.

- In "Dulce Et Decorum Est" visual and aural imagery is used to put the reader directly into the scene as they watch, listen and even taste the soldiers agony as he is suffocated by the gas "gargling from froth corrupted lungs...vile incurable sores on innocent tongues".

- Graphic similies and metaphors enhance the visual imagery of suffering, such as "floundering like a man in fire or lime".

- "Anthem for doomed youth" portrays suffering through the pain and mourning of the

Conclusion

- NO CLOSURE

- NORMAL RELIGIOUS WAY OF MOURNING

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