How Does Wilfred Owen Present The Horrors Of War

Wilfred Owen incorporates the horrors of war experienced by the soldiers in the trenches into his poems. Through the use of various language techniques Wilfred Owen was able to capture the horror of war and describe what the soldiers went through in a detailed manner. Through the poems ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, ‘Strange Meeting’, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ ‘The Next War’ and ‘Insensibility’, one can explore the anger, lack of dignity of the death and burial as well as the horror of war experienced by the soldiers. Owen demonstrates the different horrors of war through a range of literary techniques.
The consequences of war often resulted in the feeling of anger at the people who supported it as can be seen in the poems ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and ‘Strange Meeting’. In ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’, Owen is bitter during the start as he explains to his audience how the young men fighting in the war will not have a chance to experience the life they should have as they are doomed from the

This is clearly described through the poems ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘The Next War’. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ tells one of the horrors of the battlefield and the indignity of the death and burial of the soldiers. “Behind the wagon that we flung him in,” symbolises the lack of dignity and hopelessness that the soldiers felt at the time. ‘The Next War’ portrays Owen personifying death as well as describing the various ways soldiers have died through the utilisation of many metaphors and symbolism. The poem highlights the subject of war and its disastrous effects. Imagery and personification is emphasised when Owen writes “We’ve sniffed the green thick odour of his breath-”, it alludes to ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ as it also describes horrendous death by the green gas. In many of his poems Wilfred Owen discusses the lack of dignity the soldiers had during death and their