A few times in his poems, (e.g. Disabled and Anthem of Doomed Youth), Wilfred Owen had told us that many youths had been wasted. In these two poems, the opening lines show outrage and are straight to the point, showing the outcome of war, i.e. "He sat in a wheel chair, waiting for dark", "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" Owen is trying to prove straight away that war has a bad effect on people's lives, especially the ones who are on their youth years. It has also noted a few times in Wilfred Owen's poems that soldiers were treated with no respect, instead as people of no importance. Maybe, due to this reason people find war a very frustrating event in one way, (due the never ending days of military service), while a very sad event because o

f departure from friends and families, whom they shall never see again. In the poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth", the theme is about comparison between a battlefield and a church, e.g. "Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs-The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells". In the second stanza, Owens tells us that the result of war could be death. Again, when he says that, he uses the comparison of a battlefield and a church. The use of rhythm makes it easier to understand what Wilfred Owen is comparing. Alliteration is used to give the poem a very hard sound that gets to you, e.g. "rifles' rapid rattle". Wilfred Owen has also used onomatopoeia, (e.g. "patter"), personification, (e.g. "monstrous anger of the guns") and simile, (e.g. "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?") to emphasise his points throughout the poem.

"Dulce et Decorum Est". The theme of this poem is about a gas attack. Owen's purpose of this poem is to really emphasise how disgusting and bad the seen was. Owen also tells us dying for your country is not sweet and honourable. He describes the scenes in the poem as "humanity taken away". In the first stanza the soldiers are exhausted, tired and worn out. They can't physically go on fighting, e.g. "beggars", "knock-kneed", "coughing", etc. The second stanza's mood is fast where everyone is in a panic due to a gas attack, e.g. "Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!", etc. Everyone tries to fit on his or her gas mask instantly. In the last sentence of the stanza Owen talks about a soldier who failed to avoid the gas attack, e.g. "As under a green sea, I saw him drowning". The third stanza is quite short and talks about the experience of not being able to help a person in need. However, in the last stanza the mood is angry, where Owen really wants to show the disgust, e.g. "If in some smothering dreams", "Hanging face", "like a devil's sin", etc. He also quotes that dying for your country is not sweet, instead a horror, "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est", "Pro patria mori". Owen shows that people are being used, in the poem, by telling us the army casualties have not been treated efficiently. Wilfred Owen, referring to the poem, tells us that the effect of a gas raid is devastating, where the victim chokes to death, e.g. "He plunges

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