A Comparison of Peace, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est

A Comparison of Peace, Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce et Decorum Est

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All three poems are about the First World War but Peace has a highly

patriotic view and displays a positive feeling about war whereas

Anthem and Dulce concentrate more on the fact that people were killed

for no particular reason and they also look at the true horrors of

war. I will mainly be looking at the content and form of the three

poems and comparing them to each other.

Anthem and Dulce both portray Owen's bitterness and anger towards the

war and this is shown by the first few lines of both poems, in Dulce:

"beggars"(L.1) and "Hags"(L.2), he uses these words to describe the

soldiers and in Anthem: "die"(L.1) and "anger"(L.2) are used. Brook

however feels that in Peace the world is asleep and dirty without war

and only war can cleanse us and wake our youth, which shows that he

has a very different view towards war.

The fact that Dulce is written in a narrative form and is a real life

encounter make it more convincing and persuasive. It has much more

informal language than the other two and the language is hard hitting

and effective. Peace's language is more formal and it seems to flow

like a speech, with a build up to a dramatic end. Anthem has been

written in a way in which you have to solve a riddle in order to find

out what is being said.

Anthem has the same effect as Dulce in the way that both poems start.