Poetry is an amazing way to express emotions, ideals, and serious subject matters. Poetry can be used in many different ways such as sonnets, setets or quatrains. Some authors have a certain way how they capture their audiences’ attention. Authors use techniques such as imagery, flow, and a certain sound to really capture the tone of the poem. Two authors wrote two completely different poems about war. The poems are very similar, yet very different in many ways. The first poem is called “Sonnet”, by George Henry. The second poem is called “Dulce et Decorum Est”, by Wilfred Owen. Both Authors talk about many struggles of war. While George Henry Boker focuses more on the sacrifices of war, Wilfred Owen focuses on the hardships of war.
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The pain he felt if compared to a “hell’s gate rends”. To compare his pain to the gates of hell, this means that he is in great emotional distress. This comparison is an example of a metaphor. A metaphor is a good thing to use when something unrelated is compared. The authors uses the metaphor get the audience to understand the comrade’s pain in a new way. George Henry uses other comparisons to pain and sacrifices in his poem as well. Another poetic device that he used was allusions. Allusion is a poetic device that compares something or someone with a story, person or event. The allusion used says,” that which made Abraham barely the priestly knife”. This is an allusion to Abraham, where God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. The author used this allusion to show the great sacrifices that are made to fight in the war. Leaving home where family and friends, and to risk your life is a big sacrifice. The sacrifices the solider made is like Abraham’s sacrifice to kill his son. Another allusion that the poem said is “who sought her father coming from the strife.” It is an allusion to the story of Jephthah, who vowed to sacrifice the first thing he saw after returning home from battle. His daughter rush out to meet him. He was very devastated, but he did go through with his …show more content…
The rhyme scheme of this poem is “ABABCDCD etc.” The poem also used end rhythm and contains 28 lines. A French Ballade poem is a narrative poem. “Dulce et Decorum Est”, tells and story about how hard and tiring it is to fight in the war. A key poetic device that is used in the poem is imagery. Imagery is a way to have a mental image of what is going on. This poem had such great detail you can picture almost everything that is going on in this war that is described. Wilfred Owen used imagery so that people and actually put themselves in the situation that the soldiers are in. The first example of imagery is “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”. This could also be a simile but it has a visual effect as well. When the author said dent double one can imagine the solider bent over walking very slowly. Another visual effect Wilfred Owen used was” as under a green sea, I show him drowning”. The first thing that comes to mind is some type of green gas they sprayed has caused a solider to choke. Wilfred Owen did a great job with imagery in his
The first …show more content…
The pain he felt if compared to a “hell’s gate rends”. To compare his pain to the gates of hell, this means that he is in great emotional distress. This comparison is an example of a metaphor. A metaphor is a good thing to use when something unrelated is compared. The authors uses the metaphor get the audience to understand the comrade’s pain in a new way. George Henry uses other comparisons to pain and sacrifices in his poem as well. Another poetic device that he used was allusions. Allusion is a poetic device that compares something or someone with a story, person or event. The allusion used says,” that which made Abraham barely the priestly knife”. This is an allusion to Abraham, where God told Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac. The author used this allusion to show the great sacrifices that are made to fight in the war. Leaving home where family and friends, and to risk your life is a big sacrifice. The sacrifices the solider made is like Abraham’s sacrifice to kill his son. Another allusion that the poem said is “who sought her father coming from the strife.” It is an allusion to the story of Jephthah, who vowed to sacrifice the first thing he saw after returning home from battle. His daughter rush out to meet him. He was very devastated, but he did go through with his …show more content…
The rhyme scheme of this poem is “ABABCDCD etc.” The poem also used end rhythm and contains 28 lines. A French Ballade poem is a narrative poem. “Dulce et Decorum Est”, tells and story about how hard and tiring it is to fight in the war. A key poetic device that is used in the poem is imagery. Imagery is a way to have a mental image of what is going on. This poem had such great detail you can picture almost everything that is going on in this war that is described. Wilfred Owen used imagery so that people and actually put themselves in the situation that the soldiers are in. The first example of imagery is “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”. This could also be a simile but it has a visual effect as well. When the author said dent double one can imagine the solider bent over walking very slowly. Another visual effect Wilfred Owen used was” as under a green sea, I show him drowning”. The first thing that comes to mind is some type of green gas they sprayed has caused a solider to choke. Wilfred Owen did a great job with imagery in his