The word choice in the “The Soldier” by Rupert Brooke and “Dulce es Decorum Est“ by Wilfred Owen remains shocking and powerful today as when it first published. There are always two ways of looking at the same situation where people create their vision and opinion according to their relationship to this situation. I am trying to assume that both poems, written by two different people, from the different perspective view, can have their truth and place in the modern literature as we still reading and explore them nowadays. What makes them so graceful - is the power of the words! Even thought they use it in a different way to achieve absolutely different result, the context can affect the mind and inspire. Brooke’s poem supports patriotism and
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In the Dulce Et Decorum Est author give us an impression of soldiers pain and horror. He was trying to show us that dying for your country is not an honor like it seems to be but in reality it is very horrible and suffering. In the contrary in his Soldier, Rupert Brooke gives us the impression that dying in the war, no matter for what cause is very glorious and honorable thing. Since both poets have different vision of the war, we see different language, sounds, tones, and figuration in order to achieve their opinion. Wilfred Owen used very short sentences to create severe effect. For example: “Men marched asleep…Many had lost their boots”. He also used very sudden sentences, like: ” Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!”. Rupert Brooke used very long and continues sentences witch give us smoothness during the reading. He had only three sentences in the whole poem, containing fourteen lines. Example:” If I should die, think only this of me/ That there is some corner of a foreign field/ That is for ever England.” Or the last sentence contains a half of the poem but because it was written and linked so well and smooth we don’t realize that its only one sentence. Talking about the atmosphere in the Soldier, it is calm and reflective, while in the Dulce Et Decorum Est is moody and grim. Atmosphere depending a lot from the tone, for example in Owen work tone is depressive and slightly …show more content…
He described soldiers being tired, sick and exhausted:” bent double”, "old beggars under sacks”, "knock-kneed”, "coughing like hags”, "Men marched asleep”, "blood-shod”, "all went lame; all went blind”. By that image he emphasizes his feelings that war is horrible. In second stanza author gave us image of a group of soldiers running and trying to survive from the gas attack and how one of the soldier is dying in front of others:” ecstasy of fumbling’, "thick green light”, "under a green sea”, "saw him drowning”, "in all my dreams” and "plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”. In the final stanza Owen used words like:” smothering dreams”, "we flung him in”, "writhing in his face”, "hanging face”, "froth-corrupted lungs”, witch talking about the look of dying soldier and how his body was treated. The last part is his last appeal toward the people mind. War is not about the glory and his character was one the guys who believed in that and died being desperate:” vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues” and "children ardent for some desperate
In the Dulce Et Decorum Est author give us an impression of soldiers pain and horror. He was trying to show us that dying for your country is not an honor like it seems to be but in reality it is very horrible and suffering. In the contrary in his Soldier, Rupert Brooke gives us the impression that dying in the war, no matter for what cause is very glorious and honorable thing. Since both poets have different vision of the war, we see different language, sounds, tones, and figuration in order to achieve their opinion. Wilfred Owen used very short sentences to create severe effect. For example: “Men marched asleep…Many had lost their boots”. He also used very sudden sentences, like: ” Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!”. Rupert Brooke used very long and continues sentences witch give us smoothness during the reading. He had only three sentences in the whole poem, containing fourteen lines. Example:” If I should die, think only this of me/ That there is some corner of a foreign field/ That is for ever England.” Or the last sentence contains a half of the poem but because it was written and linked so well and smooth we don’t realize that its only one sentence. Talking about the atmosphere in the Soldier, it is calm and reflective, while in the Dulce Et Decorum Est is moody and grim. Atmosphere depending a lot from the tone, for example in Owen work tone is depressive and slightly …show more content…
He described soldiers being tired, sick and exhausted:” bent double”, "old beggars under sacks”, "knock-kneed”, "coughing like hags”, "Men marched asleep”, "blood-shod”, "all went lame; all went blind”. By that image he emphasizes his feelings that war is horrible. In second stanza author gave us image of a group of soldiers running and trying to survive from the gas attack and how one of the soldier is dying in front of others:” ecstasy of fumbling’, "thick green light”, "under a green sea”, "saw him drowning”, "in all my dreams” and "plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning”. In the final stanza Owen used words like:” smothering dreams”, "we flung him in”, "writhing in his face”, "hanging face”, "froth-corrupted lungs”, witch talking about the look of dying soldier and how his body was treated. The last part is his last appeal toward the people mind. War is not about the glory and his character was one the guys who believed in that and died being desperate:” vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues” and "children ardent for some desperate