Analysing war on Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) is the greatest of the lost poets of World War I. He thought the war was a totally ridiculous activity with disastrous and tragic results. He has mentioned that in poems like Dulce et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Disabled. In Wilfred Owen's introductory remarks to his poems, he expresses "Above all, I am not concerned with poetry. My subject is war and the pity of war". Basically Wilfred Owen is trying to express his feelings in his poems.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
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Approximate Word count = 1527
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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