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    The two poems that I chose were The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, and the second that I chose was Dulce Et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen. The first poem The Charge of the Light Brigade, strait away with the first stanza of the poem there was a rhythm starting to occur, that sounded like chanting or galloping of the troops and horses, which linked to the theme of the poem of the troops going into battle on horseback. Looking at the poem, the writer had laid it out neatly…

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    expresses in his text “Facing It” how the soldiers must face death and reality at the same time and in Komunyakkas’ text “We Never Know” he is connecting emotionally with a fallen enemy soldier through a picture of a women. In Owen’s text “Dulce Et Decorum Est” Owen is upset about the condition that the soldiers are in and the point of view of people who haven’t experienced war first hand. All three soldiers wrote to better communicate with the world the conditions and reality to them.…

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    the theme of death. Although ‘death’ is not mentioned throughout the poem, the context and situation of the soldiers further depicts the theme of death. Dulce et Decorum Est was written in 1917 while Owen was at Craig Lockhart and was published in 1920. The poem paints a scene of battlefield of soldiers being taken over by a poisonous gas. “Dulce” is a message to a poet and propagandist, Jessie Pope, who had written several enthusiastic poems about the romanticism of war and encouraging those…

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    War is considered by many to be one of humanity’s central traits as an advancing species and as such it holds a heavy influence on our past, present and future. From warring tribes in Africa during the dawn of man to the great Empires of Greece and Persia warfare has always been present, whether this war is for defense of a homeland and families, to conquest for more power and wealth or freedom from persecution and oppression. These forces drive mankind and have pushed us technologically and…

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    only to fail twice and join the Artist’s rifles, later to be commissioned into the Manchester Regiment as a lieutenant. Owen is seen as one of the great World War I poets because of his detailed poems and vivid imagery throughout them. In “Dulce et Decorum Est,” Owen gives life to a soldier who is marching back to camp with his platoon to get some rest after a battle. The title…

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    Before the Great war, the Europeans viewed war in a romantic sense. They viewed war as something to look forward to as it is a step toward manhood and helping your country rise up. But, Robert E. Lee’s quote about the American Civil war, “It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it.” would ring true for the Europeans after World War I is over. The new technology coming from the Industrial Revolution had rewritten the rules of war. In the days of the…

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    Debora Pineda Gomez English 1330 Professor Mattix Wilfred Owen: Opposing the war It is an unimaginable hardship to endure a terrible war such as Wilfred Owen did in World War I. In his poem, Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen describes his journey and thoughts about it. Through various forms of rhetorical devices such as point of view, imagery, and similes, Owen protests against the war and against those that believe that it is an “honor” to fight for one’s country. Being an officer in the British Army…

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    Theme comparison essay between All Quiet on the Western Front and Dulce Et Decorum Est The book All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and the poems Dulce Et Decorum Est and Suicide in the Trenches are similar because they include some of the same themes like horrors of war and camaraderie. In the book these two themes are used multiple times and in the two poems they are used as well In Dulce Et Decorum Est it showed horrors of war when Wilfred Owen writes “Many had lost their…

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    A True War Story

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    The writings “How to Tell a True War Story”, “Dulce et Decorum est”, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” offer contrasting portraits of war. The contrasts between “How to Tell a True War Story”, “Dulce et Decorum est”, and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” can clearly be outlined through their acknowledgement of the most prevalent, unavoidable element of war, death. “How to Tell a True War Story” by Tim O’Brien, address death as a matter of fact, consequence of war. Though, O’Brien is…

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    hard on more people than just the soldiers. Most of these effects can be looked at through pictures, writing, poetry, and all other forms of expression. Although Donald Bruce Dawe and Wilfred Owen, the writers of the war poems Homecoming and Dulce Est Decorum Est, have completely different stylistic characteristics, both of them effectively use literary devices such as imagery, personification, and simile to help the reader understand the harsh ravages of…

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