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The send off / Ducle et Decorum est - Compare these two poems by
Wilfred Owen which is both about the horrors of war. In any way
you like.
The send off/ Ducle et Decorum est.
Compare these two poems by Wilfred Owen which is both about the
horrors of war. In any way you like.
Wilfred Owen is trying to tell people the way soldiers were sent off
battle and who was there to show them support in of their need. Also
he is showing people who were pressured into going to war and they
know that they have a 5% chance or not returning back let alone in
tacked with an arm missing.
Death seems to be mentioned a lot in Wilfred Owen's poems for example
the title of "Dulce et decorum est." in an English translation means
"It is sweet and fitting to die for ones country. Throughout the poem
more pictures are painted of death and funerals e.g.
Dulce et Decorum est is an unglamours shocking picture at the front
line. It is really making fun of the title I think that there might be
a bit of irony in it. The two poems are first hand accounts of the
war. Wilfred Owen is trying to tell everyone "don't go to war unless
it is absolutely necessary". The two poems are showing the bitterness
about war also there is a sense of shame in both of how people where
sent off to die and not really care about them because it was their
choice and they wanted to die for their country and in the way that
the soldiers never returned the same person as when they arrived. Both
of the poems are immensely sad by the way that they portrayed things
like in Dulce et Decorum est. 'Bent doubles like old beggars under
sacks' it is sad what war does to soldiers you don't associate
soldiers like old beggars. Also in the send off 'Down the close...
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tongues, -- My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To
children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et
decorum est Pro patria mori. All Wilfred Owens's poems seem to rhyme.
The ends of the alternate lines rhyme in most all of his poems for
example in "The send off" The 1st line ends in way and the 3rd in gay.
This is repeated with other rhyming words all through the poem. On the
7th and 9th lines the rhyme is tramp and camp. In "Dulce et decorum
est" we can see the same format of rhyming. The end of each alternate
line rhymes i.e. the ends of the 1st and 3rd lines in this case sacks
and backs, and the end of the 9th and 10th lines fumbling and
stumbling.
Do what Owen did. The pain of this piece of writing is its truth. This
is something we believe the poet saw and actually experienced. Your
experiences can be just as vital.
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