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Wilfred Owen War Poems: 'ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, ' DISABLED','DULCE ET DECORUM EST', 'MENTAL CASES', 'ARMS AND THE BOY', 'THE LAST LAUGH': Summary, Context, Structure, Analysis, Themes, and links to the war play 'My Bo$35.11
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Wilfred Owen War Poems: 'ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, ' DISABLED','DULCE ET DECORUM EST', 'MENTAL CASES', 'ARMS AND THE BOY', 'THE LAST LAUGH': Summary, Context, Structure, Analysis, Themes, and links to the war play 'My Bo
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Detailed analysis, context, structure for 6 Wilfred Owen poems.
Owen writes in ‘didactic’ because he wanted to teach, inform, awake and enlighten. Owen wanted people to see the soldiers perpective
Only 5 poems of his published in his lifetime
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
SUMMARY CONTEXT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS THEMES MY BOY JACK
He illustrates the "Dulce et Decorum Deos not follow a Title translates to “It is sweet and just to die for your Heroism Scene when the survivor in
brutal everyday Est" frankly discusses specific traditional country” Opposing propaganda johns regiment was in their
struggle of a the brutality of war, form. Human vulnerability house and imagined gas
company of soldiers. focusing on the “Bent-double” - PHYSICAL DISTORTION, Mental trauma clouds along the floor? Check.
Ficuses on the stoiry introduction of poison 4 stanzas. UNHEROIC, SUFFERING Suffering
of one soldiers gas, which was 1st - an octave - Coumpund adjective - a physical deformity Violence “Lie” in the poem - links with
agonsizing death relatively new to 2nd - sestet - Tired, ages and mentalkly and physically Death kiplings patriotism and creation
and discusses the military use (the first 3rd - couplet drained by war Identity - loss of identity of propaganda
trauma that this effective use of 4th - 12 lines - Deformed through their skeletal
event left behind chlorine gas came in - Consonance of ‘b” in the three stressed form
1915). Maybe a hidden words “bent” “double” “beggars” - creates Aftermath and impacts
The speaker of this reference to the harsher sound from war
poem is a soldier, April 22 1915 sonnet- sonnet has - Cacophony - full of police sounds - Camaraderie - death of
traumatized by an The German military 14 lines in aimbic hardness of teh sounds empahsises the friend torments him.
experience he has launches the first pentameter and this sound if the weapons. Hardness of teh Passive stance ?
had in war. He is large-scale use of poem has 28 lines - sound also links to the hardness iof their Fear
educated, as shown chemical weapons in exactly twice as skeletal form. They have no fat, just bones. Deterioration
by his familiarity with war at Ypres, Belgium. many. Can be read Presentation of the
Latin poetry. What he Nearly 170 metric tons as a broken sonnet “Bent-double, like old beggars under sacks,” natural environment
wants, within the of chlorine gas in 5,730 - Simile Grief
poem, is to cylinders are buried 2nd and 3rd stanza “Beggars” Responsibility
communicate to his along a four-mile link through their - Look more homeless than soldiers - The irrationality of war.
readers the horror of stretch of the front. In end rhume - looks juxtaposition of war propaganda being
his experience and the end more than like it should be one strong.
make them question 1,100 people are killed stanza but it “Under sacks” -
their attitude towards by the attack and separates teh past - A metaphor in a simile.
war. 7,000 are injured. from teh presnet. - The soldiers are skeltal to the point that
,September 25 1915 Means how the their uniform drowns them and is too big for
The British military speaker cannot them.
uses chemical escape from the - Lost weight
weapons for the first past, still feels - Not typically muscaylar like perceived in
time against the exactly the same as propaganda
Germans at the Battle when he saw his
of Loos. They release friend die. LEXICAL SETS:
chlorine gas from Injury -
cylinders. METER - IAMBIC - “Blood-shod”
PENTAMETER - “Limped”
Chlorine gas, used on - “Bent double”
the infamous day of Rhyme scheme - - “Lame”
April 22, 1915, ABABCDCD - “Blind”
produces a - End - “Deaf”
greenish-yellow cloud rhumed Dishevelled -
that smells of bleach alternately - “Hags”
and immediately - Perfect - “Drunk”
irritates the eyes, nose, rhymes - “Tired”
lungs, and throat of rhyming of
those exposed to it. At "drowning" with “Blood-shod”
high enough doses it itself in lines 14 and - Zoomorphic. Animalistic
kills by asphyxiation. 16. Sometimes - Shoes are gone, blood covered in their feet.
Phosgene, which called "identical The one thing that allows them to run away.
smells like moldy hay, rhyme," rhyming a No shoes = no man made objects to protect
is also an irritant but word with itself is them - how ill prepared they are mentally
six times more deadly unusual in poetry. and physically without proper equipment
than chlorine gas. In this poem, it has
Phosgene is also a a deadening effect “In all my dreams” MENTALLY TRAUMATISED.
much stealthier on the rhythm, SUBCONSCIOUS
weapon: it’s colorless, dragging readers - “All” intensifier shows that his dream never
and soldiers did not at back to what's provide comfort
first know they had already been said - “Dreams” - traditionally connote relaxation,
received a fatal dose. as they attempt to calmness, restoration
After a day or two, move forward. This, - The fact that this moment in time enters his
victims’ lungs would fill in turn, echoes the subconscious mind each time he sleeps
with fluid, and they way that the image shows that the speakers dreams are
would slowly suffocate of the dying soldier transformed into nightmares
in an agonizing death. endlessly repeats in “He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.”
, the speaker's PASSIVE, RESPONSIBILITY, MENTAL TRAUMA
Mustard gas caused dreams. - Asyndetic tripling of present continuous
the highest number of verbs . asyndetic creates a fast tone - how
casualties from fast death is. Quick death by gas - refelcts
chemical Varying stanza how the speakers memory of the death is
weapons—upward of lengths - not also continuous - survivers guilt
120,000 by some ordered. - Hypermetric line - extra metric foot.
estimates—but it Why should they Elongates the moment of suffering, linking
caused few direct need to stick to to the continuous effect created.
deaths because the poetry rules when - “Me” - object pronoun. Speaker is passive,
open air of the the government cannot help.
battlefield kept rules have brough - “Plunges” - desperate and lack of control
concentrations below them here. - Onomatopoeic
the lethal threshold. Sense of disorder -
mental health of the Labels ‘Dulce et Decorum Est Pro patria mori” the
Social pressure was soldiers - damaged, “old Lie” OLDER GEN VS YOUTH,
intense. Young men IRRATIONALITY OF WAR
who failed to enlist Most common - Lie is capitalised. Importance. The lies of
were frequently amount of syllables propaganda has led them to the battlefield
confronted by women per line is 10 - - Adjective “old” shows how this is an old lie
and given white poem is irregular in and created by older men who profit off of
feathers, a mark of its meter this war.
cowardice - The Order - Generally - Not a good death - not a heroic death in
of the White Feather, in iambic propaganda. A waste of life. The person
founded in August oentamner who died suffered, the family suffered and
1914 by Admiral - teh witnesses
Charles Fitzgerald, represents - The poem was originally addressed to
encouraged women to speech as jessie Pope, a propaganda writer - tells him
give out white feathers if the the reality of the war they profit off.
to young men who had reader is “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest”
not joined the British positioned - “Friend” - bel;ittling. Voice of experience to
army. in the someone younger.
shoes of - Lied to by propaganda. Angry, resentful,
the soldier. bitter tone.
- Other - Declarative - indisputable. If they have
meters - experienced this, they would see that the
distorted, propaganda is wrong to the people at home.
like how
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