Compare and Contrast the Way Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen Approach the Subject of War Essay

The title of this verse is very(prenominal) powerful. It tells the reader that this is a very sad numbers and that by going to struggle death is intimately certain. Sassoon has done this to give the reader an idea of state of contend, and, as the reader reads the poesy their insight into the brutality and the sorrow of war increases. The first paragraph of this song tells of the slow death of a sol flunkr as the sun rises. Sassoon has skilfully bitipulated language and his choice of lecture in order to create a visual image that is slowly sculptured as the first iv lines ar read.Dark clouds are smouldering into red while peck the craters morning burns the dying sol breathe outr shifts his head? To watch the exult that returns The first half of the second paragraph speaks of the patriotism of soldiers for their countries and how they want to die for their land. This dejection be observed in the line Hankering for wreaths and tombs and hearses. The last(a) half of t he second paragraph tells of how the soldier faces his destiny with courage.Writing has etern in ally been a tool for reflecting and commenting on society. During the 20th century legion(predicate) poets reacted to problems in the world with highly emotionally charged poems. The horror of war and the ghostly degradation it inflicts is evident in the work of the World War I poets. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) were both soldiers and poets. Their poems reflect the loss of innocence and the grand mental and strong-arm toll World War I inflicted on the world. ?Both Sassoon and Owen wrote war poetry to inform mickle of the realities of war.Sassoons efforts to publicly decry the war were stunted when the military announced he suffered from shell-shock and sent him to a infirmary to recover. His poetry became the means of sharing his opinion that the war had become a war of aggression and conquest, (Norton 1832). He wanted to share with the public the acc redited cost of war. His poem They reflects the common assumptions of the people at home intimately what the soldiers will be like when they come home. He wipes away all the illusions and shows that youll not find/A chap whos served that hasnt arrange some change (lines 9-10).In the poem, the soldiers dont return cleanse and brighter. Instead, Sassoon shows how they return less whole by describing their injuries.? Sassoon met Owen while both were in the hospital recovering. Both mens greatest achievements as poets dealt with the war. Sassoons poems about the war were, deliberately written to disturb complacency, (Poets 855). He called them trench-sketches and wrote about what he witnessed while fighting with detail and honesty. Many of his war poems are highly satirical. sequence at home during the war, he was disturbed by the publics opinion of the war.Poems such as Blighters show his evoke toward the civilian world? Id like to see a Tank com d avow the stalls,? Lurching to ra g-time tunes, or Home, sweet Home. ? And thered be no more jokes in Music-halls? To mock the riddled corpses round Bapaume. (5-8)? spell Sassoon wrote war poetry to express his anger about the war, Owens chief(prenominal) influence on his writing was not just a want to show what war was actually like, however also an expression of the horrors he saw in human beingsy aspects of life. His poetry was heavily influenced by nightmares he experienced since his childhood which were only worsened by his experiences in battle.While in the hospital, Sassoon helped Owen with his writing. At first, Owen used many of the same shock maneuver used by Sassoon, barely he level offtually found his own voice. After helping Owen with final editing process of hymn for cursed Youth, Sassoon wrote that he, realized that his verse, with its sumptuous epithets and large-scale imagery, its noble naturalness and the depth of meaning, had lofty affinities with Keats, whom he took as his supreme expempl ar.This new sonnet was a revelation . . . It confronted me with classic and imaginative serenity (Poets 750). Owens poems, such as Anthem for Doomed Youth and Apologia pro Poemate Meo were not just inspired by war or dreams, but were also written as replies to other authors, the latter in response to a remark by Robert Graves. Own was not only powerful in his subject matter, but also technically, which is why Sassoon, Graves, and other poets admired his work. His use of para-rhyme added greatly to his poetry because it, produces effects of dissonance, failure, and unfulfilment that subtly reinforces his themes, (749).? Both poets wanted to express their views and feelings about the war.Their experiences in battle, although horrible, inspired them to write better poetry than they did before the war, and in Sassoons case, even after the war. Owen seems to be a more psychologically tangled person. His poems are often melancholy and reach people on a deeply emotional level. Sassoons p oems also affect people, but they do not leave a lasting impression. Sassoons goal as a war poet is to shock, while Owens goal is to make people experience deep emotion. It is obvious from Sassoons own remarks about Owen that even he matt-up the extreme emotional and lyrical power of Owens poems.The work of each poet serves as a reminder of the awfulness of war and the effect war has on peoples lives. Dulce Decorum Est The poem Dulce Decorum Est was written by Wilfred Owen. This poem illustrates how poetry can be influenced by the subject of the words rather than the words influencing the topic. The poem uses divers(a) literary devices to show that dying for ones country can be a very ugly and horrible thing displace this idead into a poem, makes poetry a very ugly thing.Wilfred Owens makes use of many devices, but one of the first ones used in the poem is a simile. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks. This allows one to imagine a group of people hunched over, to malnourishe d and beaten to even cornerstone up straight. Another example is floundring like a man on fire or lime. The man described has been poisoned by gas, but he looks as though he is running around laborious to put out a fire on himself. The simimle illustrates the suffering of the man and his hopelessness. The author also utilizes words that name definite negative connotations in order to give the reader a feeling of unease and malady. actors line such as sludge, fatigue, guttering, froth-corrupted, vile, and incurable, all have negative connotations.The words taken from the context of the poem still do not, and likely could not have any possible positive images or ideas associated with them. By choosing such words Owen condemns his poem to being sorrowful, sad and ugly. This is likely the authors determination as he sees war, sorrowful, sad, and ugly. Owen uses these literary devices and others to reach a single end. A sensory image of watching a man, in service of his country, d ie a terrible death. These include, the images of hunched men traveling through mud, consultation gas shells and putting on masks, a man drowning in gas, and the horrible ghastly death of that man.Owen incorporates sound with the blood Come gargling which enhances the horror felt by the reader. Wilfre Owen uses all these techniques to illustrate a simple point, that the phrase Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, or translated to english, sweet and honorable it is, to die for the fatherland, is a lie. His poem tries to make real to the reader how horrible death is even when in the service of ones country. The statement is often made to children in search of adventure, but Owen makes clear that it is indeed a falsehood.