Rupert Giles

Owen’s exploration of extraordinary human experiences is vividly exhibited in ‘Dulce et Decorum’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. These two highly developed poems successfully prove that the most influential texts are those which have an intense focus on extraordinary human experiences. By being able to immerse the audience in striking imagery, Owen questions the value of war, whilst scrutinising the suffering on the battlefield in an aggravated manner. The experiences of war for…

The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” is written by Wilfred Owen, a lieutenant in WWI. It describes war and the death. This poem makes use of an ABAB rhyme scheme, sounding like a march with a steady beat. Owen tries to convey the differences and disconnect between what war is like to the soldiers and what civilians believe war is like. Throughout the poem, there is a constant reminder of the horror of war and its true brutal nature, Owen “captures so compellingly not only the tribulations of the…

realism and emotions of war also using direct address to engage the readers making his words more captivating. Emotions evoked in his poem are bitterness, horror and sadness, letting the audience experience the true nature of warfare. ‘The Soldier’ by Rupert Brooke focuses on a soldier’s loyalty and sentimental patriotism towards his country. Written in 1914, start of WW1, Brooke’s…

War is brutal; it brings death, sadness, and destruction. In Henry Reed’s poem “Naming of Parts” and John A McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Fields”. The authors convey a soldier’s reaction of war. Although the stories contain obvious difference, it is the similarities that are significant. Both poems are differ in setting and tone. In “Naming of Parts”, the setting is in a classroom where a military instructor is giving a lecture on “parts” of a rifle and showing the new recruits the firing…

Evaluating the importance of individuality and human dignity within the context of war, captures the destruction and loss of humanity within futile warfare. The intimate focus on a single moment separates ‘Futility’ from the rest of Owen’s poems, presenting a different side of war and importance of a single moment. The loss of individuality through war is explored as death consumes the soldiers, stripping them of their individuality. Futility presents the audience with a dying soldier whose…

“The Soldier” is not too similar to “Drummer’s Hodge.” They share some similarities such as taking place during a war, and death, but the themes as a whole have different meanings. . In the “Soldier” a soldier is thinking about his death that may occur when fighting for his country. In death, he believes that he will forever be a part of England as shown in the lines “That there's some corner of a foreign field/ That is forever England. “ (Brooke, 3-4)When he dies, he will no longer be an…

ultimately accepts that she will never have her soldier again. Sorrowfully, she repeats over and over again, “I bequeath you to oblivion” (Hiroshima 79). In her own perception of grief, she believes she must continue to remember that the soldier is gone forever, despite the pain caused by remembering. It is a kind of pain and anguish she continues to bear because the act of forgetting, to her, would be equatable with allowing her commitment to descend to the Kierkegaardian “lower immediacy.” The…

In the poem, “The Battle of Maldon,” an anonymous poet describes a fearsome battle between the Vikings and the Anglo-Saxons. Told entirely from the English perspective, the poem sings countless praises of the Anglo-Saxons, depicting them as heroes commanding their souls to God and sacrificing themselves to advance a greater cause. The speaker depicts war as a heroic endeavor, begetting camaraderie, bravery, loyalty, and perseverance. Soldiers are passionate about the cause, fighting for romantic…

Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen , “Hell Broke Luce” by Tom Waits, and “The Words That Maketh Murder” by PJ Harvey have a common theme, war. These poems use the point of view of a soldier. A soldier is young man or woman that fights to protect the place/country they call home. Many soldiers experience different things, but all the experienced come from the same general area. Combat troops are the ones that experience the worst of it because they are forced to see many of their friends and…

Hayden Carruth is an American poet who wrote during the twentieth century-modernism movement. He served in World War II and uses a lot of his personal experiences in his writing (Contemporary Authors Online). In “None,” Carruth is able to use many different allusions to show the speaker’s underlying regret for not showing his friend off properly. Carruth uses images, irony, and allusions to show the speaker’s remorse and regret to how his friend was treated. Carruth uses images of the…