Dulce Et Decorum Est Imagery Essay

One effective technique that was used in the poem of Dulce Et Decorum Est and the Soldier was imagery. Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen uses imagery to create a visualization for the reader to deepen their understanding of the authors work that they may visualise the writer's purpose. For example; In the Dulce Et Decorum Est," His hanging face, like a devils sick of sin", Owen was describing how the soldier's face was so distressed that the soldier had turned into a demonic figure that is sick of sins. Also, Owen uses this simile,"Bent double like old beggars, under sack", Owen was describing how the soldier was bent double that the soldier postures have become like a beggar, and that the soldier have become two different creatures in which the …show more content…
In contrast, Rupert also uses imagery but how ever he uses this very differently from Owens perception of war. For example; In the Soldier," If I should die, think only this of me that's there's a foreign field that is forever England. Rupert was attempting to make a connection between England and soldier sacrificing itself by using nature imagery to emphasise how the soldier has close relationship with England whom is the land. Rupert also uses nature imagery to make war seems as a heroic and ideal act in which it encouraged more men's to join the battlefield. Rupert believes that dying for your homeland is a noble act in which we can repay for what England did for us. For example, "A dust whom England bore, shaped and made aware." England was being personified as the mother of the soldier whom the mother created of what is today's soldiers identity. Rupert uses positive connotation of England being a mother of the soldier in which the maternal qualities are a loving and a caring mother in which it attempts to informed us of what England did for us and also attempts to persuade us to participate into