Wilfred Owen Vs. War

Wilfred Owen Vs. War

Wilfred Owen he destroys the image of pride soldiers

‘ Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,’

This makes you picture strong, powerful soldiers bent over tired, and

under these big rucksacks that weigh pounds. Owen puts this in the

poem to show volunteer what they are in for, and that its not just fun

and a ‘game’ that Jessie Pope suggest in her poem ‘Who’s for the

game?’

Owens states that the soldiers would carry on whatever,

‘But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame: all blind’

That suggest that whatever happen to them they carried on even if they

were hurt going blind, or going lame. Owen uses this to show people

how hard it was and that it was not fun to be fighting.

The soldiers were tired.

‘Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of tired, outstripped Five-nines that dropped behind.’

Owen is saying that they got so tired they couldn’t even hear the big

artillery fire behind them. He also uses personification saying the

‘outstripped Five-nines’ saying that even they were tired like the men

who were firing them.

After the first paragraph Wilfred Owen talks about the war as a scary

place were no-one really wanted to be. He uses many types of writing

styles to make the reader more involved and so they can picture what

is happening easier

Gas bombs are dropped and there’s real panic

‘An ecstasy of fumbling,

fitting the clumsy helmets just in time.’

This tells us that when gas bombs were seen there was a panic and men

were trying so hard to get there ’clumsy helmets’ on. When Owen says

clumsy helmets he is probably saying that even though they were better

than having nothing sometimes they didn’t work

People were dieing with every breath they took

‘ And floundering like a man on fire or lime…’

Owen is saying that when you got the gas in your mouth, you would try

so hard to get it out.