Wilfred Owen War Poems Essay - 1232 Words

Explain how particular features of at least two of Wilfred Owens poems set for study interact to affect your response to them. Wilfred Owens war poems central features include the wastage involved with war, horrors of war and the physical effects of war. These features are seen in the poems Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth here Owen engages with the reader appealing to the readers empathy that is felt towards the soldier. These poems interact to explore the experiences of the soldiers on the battlefields including the realities of using gas as a weapon in war and help to highlight the incorrect glorification of war. This continuous interaction invites the reader to connect with the poems to develop a more thorough†¦show more content†¦The use of repetitant capitalisation of the first GAS and the use of exclamation marks creates this mood. The next line An ecstasy of fumbling adds to the current poem atmosphere with everyone fumbling to have the masks on before being affected by gas. An anti-climax of helmets being fitted just in time misleads the reader into thinking that the helmets all were put on successfully but in the following plosive conjunction but the reader now understands this is not the case. Again in the last line Owen requests for the attention of the reader with the personal pronoun and simile As under a green sea, I saw him drowning an image of the fog of green air in which the soldiers disappear in is generated in the mind of the reader. The aftermath o the gas attacks is addressed in the last stanza. The reader is now apart of the poem by the use of the possessive pronoun you too that imposes the reader to empathise with the injured victim. The victim is then described by the gruesome alliteration and assonance of watch the white eyes writhing in his face that together enhance the vivid sight. 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