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One of Owen's talents is to convey his complex messages very proficiently and demonstrates that here because without the use of the emotive language, the scene could not be set.
In the fourth stanza, it reads, " If in some smothering dreams you could pace/behind the wagon that the we flung him in", here Owen is suggesting that the horror of the scene that he has witnessed, is forever eternalised into his dreams. Although this soldier died an innocent, the war allowed no time to give his death dignity. That in turn makes the horror so much more poignant and haunting. Owen also describes what the young lad's face looks like "Devils sick of sin", this painfully illustrates how the life is ebbing away from him and that the skin is just hanging on his face.
In the fifth and final stanza Owen makes a heroic and very public stand, by challenging the newspaper columnists, back home in England, that if they had seen the horrors that he had witnessed, then …show more content…
Unlike most of his poems where Owen is questioning war and people.
Here, it is plain to see that "Futility" has barely controlled emotion to it and that Owen appears to be questioning life itself. His lack of powerful imagery by the use of words, only serves to highlight his patients plight, which is being put across as a lack of hope and a quiet resignation towards life itself.
In the first stanza, Owens use of assonance such as 'whispering' and
'sleep' demonstrates sounds that give the poem a quiet tone as if the reader is whispering; there are no pleas to the lord or anyone else for that matter. Also, the lack of physical and horrific visualisation only proves to make the poem more intensely psychologically emotional with the idea of a catatonic patient with no true hope of recovery.
In the second stanza the tone changes to one of questioning hopelessness and of quiet resignation with the onset of death. Owen demonstrates this by asking the reader to think, "Think how it wakes the seeds- Woke, once, the clays of a cold star". Here the reader can see that the suggestion of clay as being cold and lifeless and
In the fourth stanza, it reads, " If in some smothering dreams you could pace/behind the wagon that the we flung him in", here Owen is suggesting that the horror of the scene that he has witnessed, is forever eternalised into his dreams. Although this soldier died an innocent, the war allowed no time to give his death dignity. That in turn makes the horror so much more poignant and haunting. Owen also describes what the young lad's face looks like "Devils sick of sin", this painfully illustrates how the life is ebbing away from him and that the skin is just hanging on his face.
In the fifth and final stanza Owen makes a heroic and very public stand, by challenging the newspaper columnists, back home in England, that if they had seen the horrors that he had witnessed, then …show more content…
Unlike most of his poems where Owen is questioning war and people.
Here, it is plain to see that "Futility" has barely controlled emotion to it and that Owen appears to be questioning life itself. His lack of powerful imagery by the use of words, only serves to highlight his patients plight, which is being put across as a lack of hope and a quiet resignation towards life itself.
In the first stanza, Owens use of assonance such as 'whispering' and
'sleep' demonstrates sounds that give the poem a quiet tone as if the reader is whispering; there are no pleas to the lord or anyone else for that matter. Also, the lack of physical and horrific visualisation only proves to make the poem more intensely psychologically emotional with the idea of a catatonic patient with no true hope of recovery.
In the second stanza the tone changes to one of questioning hopelessness and of quiet resignation with the onset of death. Owen demonstrates this by asking the reader to think, "Think how it wakes the seeds- Woke, once, the clays of a cold star". Here the reader can see that the suggestion of clay as being cold and lifeless and