In the 1910’s the First World War was in process and most of the men that sacrificed their lives for their country and family were forced to commit undignified murders of fellow soldiers. Many of the soldiers that went to fight would write poetry about the glorification and traumas of the war to send back to their families at home, many of these poems were later published and used to implicate the horrific world war. Language techniques are used in many different English pieces, through powerful ways to make the reader think differently and to intrigue, persuade and covey ideas and information to the reader.
Second Lieutenant, Wilfred Owen in the British army wrote many different poems incorporating the theme of the horrifying war and the …show more content…
Metaphors are comparisons between two objects, stating that they are one another, not just like one another. Metaphors are important in the use of language writing as they can link abstract concepts to concrete concepts, therefore making it easier to understand. Within war poems, metaphors are used to give verbal representations of images, pictures and symbols by comparing them to an accustomed object. They are also used to help the reader understand the unfamiliar brutality of the war by linking them to a similar, recognisable situation. Within ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ metaphors used include ‘An ecstasy of fumbling’, which gives the reader and image of a soldier falling from a gas attack. ‘Man marched asleep’ and ‘Drunk with fatigue’ are used to resemble the suffers of night less sleep and turmoils the soldiers were put through. Within ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ a powerful metaphor ‘The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds’ is used to express the ideas of the women sitting in their homes or graves after their loved ones had been buried, with sorrowful expressions on their faces. ‘Each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds’ can be interpreted as a cloth being draped over the coffins and taking them into darkness. ‘The Solider’ incorporates the phase ‘A pulse in the eternal mind’, as the fallen soldiers that will only be a memory
Second Lieutenant, Wilfred Owen in the British army wrote many different poems incorporating the theme of the horrifying war and the …show more content…
Metaphors are comparisons between two objects, stating that they are one another, not just like one another. Metaphors are important in the use of language writing as they can link abstract concepts to concrete concepts, therefore making it easier to understand. Within war poems, metaphors are used to give verbal representations of images, pictures and symbols by comparing them to an accustomed object. They are also used to help the reader understand the unfamiliar brutality of the war by linking them to a similar, recognisable situation. Within ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ metaphors used include ‘An ecstasy of fumbling’, which gives the reader and image of a soldier falling from a gas attack. ‘Man marched asleep’ and ‘Drunk with fatigue’ are used to resemble the suffers of night less sleep and turmoils the soldiers were put through. Within ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ a powerful metaphor ‘The pallor of girls’ brows shall be their pall; Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds’ is used to express the ideas of the women sitting in their homes or graves after their loved ones had been buried, with sorrowful expressions on their faces. ‘Each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds’ can be interpreted as a cloth being draped over the coffins and taking them into darkness. ‘The Solider’ incorporates the phase ‘A pulse in the eternal mind’, as the fallen soldiers that will only be a memory