In Wilfred Owen's poem 'The Send-off' he talks about soldiers leaving for the front line that he expects will never come home. Owen uses words like 'they' and 'all' to give us an idea of the numbers. These words also show the anonymity of the many soldiers that were sent off. The public were not happy to see them off, but instead were somber and depressed. The men who were leaving were 'grimly gay' with a low moral. They knew what their fate would be. The few that did manage to return home, were not met with a party, but were left to find their own way home.

'Dulce et Decorum Est' is about the type of conditions the soldiers endured. It concentrates on a battlefield incident and points out the horror of war. Owen uses the present participle to prolong the actions -'fumbling', 'stumbling', 'dr

Wilfred Owen saw the stupidity of the sergeants in the army when they were picked on for having one small spot of dirt on their clothes. The poem 'Inspection' is all about the irony of war. The men were expected to die for their country, not bleed. It is about a man coming on parade with a spot of blood on his uniform, which was seen as 'dirt', and the sergeant yelling at him for it. The men were expected to die for their country, not bleed. In this poem Owen uses simple words to convey his feeling towards the sergeant. It shows his dislike towards people who were so petty and also his sadness throughout war.

In the title 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' we see what Owen predicts for the soldiers. It suggests no future in the life that would be ahead of young men. He compares the death of men to that of cattle being slaughtered, which gives us a sense of the numbers and also the stupidity of war. Owen uses alliteration and onomatopoeia ('stuttering rifles' rapid rattle') to try and show us what the guns were like. He talks about these sounds as being the mourning bells and also revenge for the people that have been killed in the wars. In this poem he is saying that that dying in battle is not the way it is supposed to be, but even so, he knows that the men he sees leaving will never return. The guns are personified in this poem as though they have a mind of their own. This helps us blame it on the circumstances instead of th

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