Theme: The devastating effect of war
Question: Describe how the language techniques used by an author helped convey a lesson relevant to teenagers.
War is hate, war is destruction, war is death. The two poems ‘Dulce et decorum est’ and ‘ Who’s for the game’ are both talking about World War One, but they had different purposes. In ‘Who’s for the game’, Jessie Pope uses serval language techniques like rhetorical question and extended metaphor to continue teenagers to join the army to fight for their country. In’ Dulce et decorum est’ , the author Wilfred Owen has used simile and metaphor throughout his whole poem to convey a lesson to the young teenagers that war is very serious and cruel, he uses his own experience to stop teenagers to join the army.
In the poem ‘Dulce et decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen an English poet and a soldier, tells us a story of a gas attack he has experience first-hand in the front-line of WWI. He uses the language techniques simile, to describe the appearance of soldiers, to refute the lesson exposed by many other poems that war is sweet and right. “Bent double like old beggars under sacks” and “coughing like hags” as the opening line of his poem. This gives the reader an unexpected view of soldiers’ appearance that many other …show more content…
Jessie pope uses the language technique extended metaphor to give the teenagers a sense of security, that war is where you can always retry to win until you get the honour. She uses word ‘ game’ and ‘play’ to replace ‘war’ and ‘fight’, this makes the reader misunderstand the cruelty of war. The uses of extended metaphor helped jessie to convey a lesson to the reader that war is fun and never involves serious injury, make those teenagers who are hesitating to joint army feel that war is safe, to encourage them to fight for their
Question: Describe how the language techniques used by an author helped convey a lesson relevant to teenagers.
War is hate, war is destruction, war is death. The two poems ‘Dulce et decorum est’ and ‘ Who’s for the game’ are both talking about World War One, but they had different purposes. In ‘Who’s for the game’, Jessie Pope uses serval language techniques like rhetorical question and extended metaphor to continue teenagers to join the army to fight for their country. In’ Dulce et decorum est’ , the author Wilfred Owen has used simile and metaphor throughout his whole poem to convey a lesson to the young teenagers that war is very serious and cruel, he uses his own experience to stop teenagers to join the army.
In the poem ‘Dulce et decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen an English poet and a soldier, tells us a story of a gas attack he has experience first-hand in the front-line of WWI. He uses the language techniques simile, to describe the appearance of soldiers, to refute the lesson exposed by many other poems that war is sweet and right. “Bent double like old beggars under sacks” and “coughing like hags” as the opening line of his poem. This gives the reader an unexpected view of soldiers’ appearance that many other …show more content…
Jessie pope uses the language technique extended metaphor to give the teenagers a sense of security, that war is where you can always retry to win until you get the honour. She uses word ‘ game’ and ‘play’ to replace ‘war’ and ‘fight’, this makes the reader misunderstand the cruelty of war. The uses of extended metaphor helped jessie to convey a lesson to the reader that war is fun and never involves serious injury, make those teenagers who are hesitating to joint army feel that war is safe, to encourage them to fight for their