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Introduction Wilfred Owen joined the army in 1915, where he fought on the Western front, experiencing shellshock. Owen developed his war poetry by getting inspiration from Siegfried Sassoon who was a poet himself. (bbc.co.uk) Rupert Brooke was also a soldier who fought In World war 1, but did not experience it fully, due to his death in 1915, when the war was not over at all. Through the poems of Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke, form, structural devices, figurative language, and sound devices…

Introduction Wilfred Owen is one of the most well known poets of the First World War; he was born in England in 1893 and joined the military when he was 22 years old. He wanted to be a poet since a very young age and wrote his earlier poems when he was around 17 years old. In 1915, during the First World War, he enlisted in the British army and his first active service was at Serre and St.Quentin in 1917. He continued writing during his time as a soldier but was in active duty only for a few…

horrific experiences that had caused their conditions; many less celebrated writers discovered the cure for themselves, and found eager readers” (Sillars 11). The poem “Disabled” by Wilfred Owen, and the poems “They” and “Glory of Women” by Siegfried Sassoon, explore the negative effects the Great War had on soldiers, while also revealing society’s reaction towards the soldiers enlistment and their return home. Aside from being killed, one of the terrors and negative effects soldiers…

The subject of war and the loss had deeply influenced poetry on the first half of the 20th century. Poets from all around the world had felt the direct influence of these earth-shattering wars and expressed their passionate responses towards the horrors of war. It was during the times of war in which the poems “Refugee blues” and “Disabled” were written by W.H. Auden and Wilfred Owen respectively. Considered to be some of the most remarkable pieces of literature, they were written in the times…

Yiluo Li HWL Ms. D’Eon 5 February 2015 Poetry Presentation Script Jessie Pope is an English poet, writer, and journalist. She is famous for her patriotic motivational poems during WWI. Starting from 1914, her poems were widely printed and published on Daily Mail, encouraging men and women to go to war. Her Pro-War attitude presented in poem also attracted some criticism, such a Wilfred Owen. Title is “A Humble Appeal” So the first time when I read it, I thought that this should be something…

joined the war and he reveals “to please his Meg, Aye, that was it, to please the giddy jilts” shows that he joined the war just to make his friends admire him, and to show his girlfriend just how manly he is, but now he does not have any friends or family, because all of them are either unaware that he still exists or are probably dead. Furthermore at that time he did not feel any fear, the thought of death or worse never crossed his mind, all he was thinking of was being called a hero and…

the soldiers and says “bent double, like old beggars under sacks, / Knock-kneed, coughing like hags”(1-2). This use of imagery helps readers imagine just how awful war is by describing what the fallen soldiers looked like in the trenches. Siegfried Sassoon also uses imagery to describe soldiers in his poem “Aftermath” when he says “With dying eyes and lolling…

Alva Elmer Metcalfe was born and raised in Brantford, Ontario. He was a student at Brantford Collegiate Institute. Later, he moved west to attend the University of Alberta. In Alberta, at twenty-two years of age he volunteered for the war. After a year at war Metcalfe was seriously injured in November 1915. His injury was a bullet wound to the thigh, which he received during battle. He was tended to at a hospital in England where he sent letters home to Brantford. In the letters Metcalfe was…

The poem that I have studied is ''Dulce Et Decorum Est'' by Wilfred Owen. The poet is trying to depict the reality. of war through this poem. The poem begins with a description of a group of soldiers retreating from the front lines of the battlefield. They are exhausted and are,''Bent double like old beggars under sacks ''. The poet used a simile to convey the ragged wretched state of the soldiers. They are''Coughing like hags''. The once clean, strong, handsome, young men are being compared to…

The poems “Dulce et decorum Est” and “The letter” are written by Wilfred Owen during WW1. Owen started writing these poems when he suffered an injury during the war and had to go back to England to recover. These poems have a similar message about war as Owen seems to give a firsthand experience about war in these poems which draws the reader closer to Owen. In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, Owen presents war as violent, inconsiderate and simply pointless. He uses a variety of different…