Wilfred Owen Speech
Ok what I have got here today is a detailed speech and I intend to explain two poems “Disabled” and “Dolce et Decorum est.”, both written by Wilfred Owen. I would choose these two poems to be in an anthology because I found the poems to be very dramatic and extremely detailed. Owen intends to shock us by demonstrating what a soldier might expect in a situation between life and death. He is not afraid to show his own feelings. Wilfred Owen is an anti-war poet and expresses his ideas and feelings through various themes and poetic devices which I will be discussing throughout this speech.
Wilfred Owens’ themes portray his attitude towards what war is and what might happen to an individual during warfare. The war strips the individuals of their dignity, youth and innocence. The horrors of war also show that there is no honour and glory in war or dying in war.Owen reveals a side of the war that the government had tried covering up with mass media productions of propaganda which pressured and force the young to join the army. Dulce et decorum est the old lie they called it. Why? the old lie because It creates a sense of something drilled into overly great young men who don't know any better, and emphasises who many of the fighters in that war were young, who lied about their age to get into the army. ‘’Dulce et Decorum est.’’ is an ironically titled poem, because he is saying the opposite of the literal meaning of this phrase, it is not sweet and honourable to die for your country. Owen relies on visual imagery to describe an incident of exhausted soldiers trudging through the mud of the battlefield.They are leaving the front line in order to rest for a few days in a little camp. However, they arethen attacked by mustard gas,a substance used in chemical warfare which reacts with water in the lungs, one soldier is too late in putting on his mask. ‘’ he plunges at me guttering choking, drowning’’ Owen describes the
Wilfred Owens’ themes portray his attitude towards what war is and what might happen to an individual during warfare. The war strips the individuals of their dignity, youth and innocence. The horrors of war also show that there is no honour and glory in war or dying in war.Owen reveals a side of the war that the government had tried covering up with mass media productions of propaganda which pressured and force the young to join the army. Dulce et decorum est the old lie they called it. Why? the old lie because It creates a sense of something drilled into overly great young men who don't know any better, and emphasises who many of the fighters in that war were young, who lied about their age to get into the army. ‘’Dulce et Decorum est.’’ is an ironically titled poem, because he is saying the opposite of the literal meaning of this phrase, it is not sweet and honourable to die for your country. Owen relies on visual imagery to describe an incident of exhausted soldiers trudging through the mud of the battlefield.They are leaving the front line in order to rest for a few days in a little camp. However, they arethen attacked by mustard gas,a substance used in chemical warfare which reacts with water in the lungs, one soldier is too late in putting on his mask. ‘’ he plunges at me guttering choking, drowning’’ Owen describes the