David Torkieh
Professor Pham Sassoon-Suicide in the Trenches
English 1012 Exposure-Owen
Due Date: 16 May 2018
Research Paper Poetry in World War I was a big help in bringing young men to join the army and fight for their country. Poets wrote about how exciting the war was and how good it felt to risk their life for one’s country. This was to keep the number of men going in to the army higher than the number of men that were being lost every day. Because of this many young men did not know the horrors war brought and went in blind. Fortunately, poets such as Wilfred Owen, and Siegfried Sassoon, told it like it was. Being in war, they knew all about its horrors and for the first time, war poetry appeared designed to educate its audience …show more content…
In the poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, the reader can actually feel what the writer is saying being that there is so much sarcasm and empathy. In the beginning of the poem the writer shows a powerful amount of sympathy towards the soldiers in the war. For example, when the writer says "Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, but limped on, blood-shod." The reader is going to get a feel of how life was for the soldiers, it was extremely hard for them. They were exhausted most of the time, while having injuries and other problems but they had to move on, there was no time and they certainly could not give …show more content…
Well, it is quite the opposite, because at the end of the poem Owen calls this a lie. Dulce et Decorum Est paints the most graphic picture of the horrors war brings, it makes the reader feel disgust at what the soldiers are going through and to feel pity for them. It is almost angry in its tone and at the very end the Latin words used are turned around to urge those reading it to not believe in them. After reading this poem the reader can actually picture themselves in the actual war, that’s what Owen wanted to do, and he executed it very
Professor Pham Sassoon-Suicide in the Trenches
English 1012 Exposure-Owen
Due Date: 16 May 2018
Research Paper Poetry in World War I was a big help in bringing young men to join the army and fight for their country. Poets wrote about how exciting the war was and how good it felt to risk their life for one’s country. This was to keep the number of men going in to the army higher than the number of men that were being lost every day. Because of this many young men did not know the horrors war brought and went in blind. Fortunately, poets such as Wilfred Owen, and Siegfried Sassoon, told it like it was. Being in war, they knew all about its horrors and for the first time, war poetry appeared designed to educate its audience …show more content…
In the poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, the reader can actually feel what the writer is saying being that there is so much sarcasm and empathy. In the beginning of the poem the writer shows a powerful amount of sympathy towards the soldiers in the war. For example, when the writer says "Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, but limped on, blood-shod." The reader is going to get a feel of how life was for the soldiers, it was extremely hard for them. They were exhausted most of the time, while having injuries and other problems but they had to move on, there was no time and they certainly could not give …show more content…
Well, it is quite the opposite, because at the end of the poem Owen calls this a lie. Dulce et Decorum Est paints the most graphic picture of the horrors war brings, it makes the reader feel disgust at what the soldiers are going through and to feel pity for them. It is almost angry in its tone and at the very end the Latin words used are turned around to urge those reading it to not believe in them. After reading this poem the reader can actually picture themselves in the actual war, that’s what Owen wanted to do, and he executed it very