‘Who’s for the Game?’ and ‘Dulce et decorum est’ are two very famous WW1 poems written by Jessie Pope and Wilfred Owen respectively. The former was written before the war, when men were still being recruited, while the latter was written after Owen had served some time as a soldier on the battlefield. Both poems have very different viewpoints on war, yet they contain powerful language features that are used to create a vivid setting for the audience to picture.
Owen uses language features to help make the reader aware of the soldier’s immediate surroundings. This is the closest Owen can get to putting the reader in the battlefield. When Owen wrote the phrase, “Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!” he uses repetition to convey the urgency of the situation.
Owen uses language features to help make the reader aware of the soldier’s immediate surroundings. This is the closest Owen can get to putting the reader in the battlefield. When Owen wrote the phrase, “Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!” he uses repetition to convey the urgency of the situation.