Comparing two war poems written by Wilfred Owen: Dulce et decorum Est E

Comparing two war poems written by Wilfred Owen Dulce et decorousness Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth.In this essay I provide be comparing two war poems written by WilfredOwen Dulce et decorousness Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth. Bycomparing the two I entrust be able to distinguish the fact that WilfredOwen is very anti-propaganda and wherefore he feels so operosely about this.The two poems admit many an(prenominal) similarities but also a fair amount ofdifferences, which I will be discussing in this essay.The two poems have a strongly anti war content and in both the victimsof war are the one-year-old men whos lives are wasted. Dulce et decorumEst uses the description of a float attack to show how horrific thereality of war is. Owen describes the victim with,The ovalbumin eyes writhing in his facethe bloodgargling from thefroth-corrupted lungs.The physical repugnance of this helps to shape his message. It isaddressed to the propaganda poet Jessie Pope and identifys he r that it isa lie to say that it is attractive and honorable to go across for ones country.A similar message in Anthem for Doomed Youth describes theslaughtered young men who blow over as cattle. Owen expresses his anger ina set of contrasts amid a real funeral and the lack of a funeralfor these young men. For example, instead of a service with a choir,they only have the shrill demented choirs of bawling shells.As you would expect, the tone and mood of both poems is deeply seriousas Owen has a strong message in both of them. However, they aredifferent. Dulce et decorum Est expresses a great deal of horror andanger. The horror is set deflection for the terrible pain and terror of thegas attack, not only for the victim but also for the poet. He writes,In a... ...ack, making a strong message tocontradict the vague, Latin phrase about how sweet it is to die foryour country.In Anthem for Doomed Youth Owen develops a singe image, the thinking ofthe funeral ceremony for the dead. Th e first line asks about thepassing bells and the rest of the octave describes the varioussounds of war, which are substituted for the funeral bells. Thisincludes the monstrous anger of guns, the rattling of the rifflesand the wailing of the shells. The sextet begins by asking where arethe candles for the funeral service but goes on to tell us that holyglimmers of goodbyes in the eyes of the boy soldiers will have toinstead. The funeral cloth placed over the coffin is replaced by thepallor of girls brows. preferably of flowers, they have the tendernessof patient minds. All the images are based on the originalcomparison.