Homecoming by Bruce Daw is a vivid and graphic war poem that sheds light on what it was like in the veitnam war. His poem is an Anti-War peom that protestes against Australias “Uncessariy” involvement in the veitynam war DULCE ET DECORUM EST is a war peom written by Wilfred Owen. DULCE ET DECORUM is another graphic and vivid peom set in WW1. Wilfreds poem sheds light on what it was like in the war and the effects of it on people and himself. The poem is abouty how it was “ Sweet and honourlable to die for ones country” but in reality it really wasn’t that at all. The poem also explores Wilfreds own espericnes in the war. Wilfreds Owens DULCE ET DECORUM ET is a poem that consist of 4 paragrpahs whereas Bruce Dwes Homecoming is a peom that is only made up of one paragraph. Both the poems are structerd diffently but the main theme is thye same with both Bruce Daw and Wilfred Owen writing about war. Bruce Daw however is writing about the veitnam war and his distase against it and austrlias involvement. Wilfred Owen simialry expresses his distase in war, howvere Wilfreds poem is based in ww1 and is based of his own expericnes in it. Both poems simalry go into graphic detail about the certain war they are focosing on with Homecoming talking about all …show more content…
the death “they’re zipping them up in green plastic bags”, DULCE ET DECORUM ET also incorpartes death but instead of many deaths it fociuses on one in particular due to a chemical bomb “If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood, Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs”. Both of these peoms portray the idea of “War is waste” from the way they have written there poems with multyiple mentions of death, violence and fear. Both texts have used a extensive variety of poetic devises to expres the idea of “ War is waste. Wilfred Owens DULCE ET DECORUM ET uses similes like “Coughing like hags” and “as under a green sea, I saw him drowning” to express the idea of needless and brutal death due to war. Homecoming similary uses this technique with “telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree’ meaning the endless telgrams sent about dead soldiers, failed missions and news about the brutal and endless war that is the veitnam war. Both Homecoming and DULCE ET DECORMUM ET use a extensive amount of imager to portray the idea of “ War is waste”. Wilfred Owens DULCE ET DECORUM ET uses lines such as “Many had lost their boots,But limped on, blood-shod” and “watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin” to portray the dark imagery of what war really was.
Death and suffering. Homecoming simaqrly uses dark imagery to portray the suffering and death in WW1 in lines such as “they’re bringing them in, piled on the hulls of Grants, in trucks, in convoys” and “they’re zipping them up in green plastic bags”. Both texts have also used enjabamnet extenivly throiuotu. Homecoming uses enjambament almost throughout the entire peom to make the whole thying almost feel like one giant sentence. DULCE ET DECORMUM ET similary uses enjambment but not as mkuch as homecoming. The use of enjambanet in both texts helps portray the idea of “War is Waste” as it makes the words seem more real and
vivid. Both texts use a very subtile,dark and deep tone. There is no humor, sarcasm or any sense of happiness in either of the texts. This portrays the idea of “ War is Waste” as it shows that there is nothing fun, happy or enmjoyable out of war and it shoulokdnt be told with glory or pride but with sadness and dismay. The tone of the texts help show the darkness and suffering of war and makes all the imagery seem even more real and graphic. Conclusion Both Wilfred Owen and Bruce Dawe have written there poems in a dark and subtile tone with mentions of death, struggles, sadness, fear, and pain. They have both used a various amount of poetic devises throuout the poems. All of this has shown the readers what war is really like and darkness behind it. Both peoms have succefully portrayed the idea of “ War is Waste” in multiple ways.
This is demonstrated with his claim of “If you could hear…the blood Come gargling” which shocks and confronts the reader. Similarly, the intended audience for Dawe’s Homecoming was the government, media, Australia and people going to war, who by analysing the overall tone of the poem, encapsulate the despairing sorrow that is felt for the young people who were killed in war. This is described in the line, “they’re rolling them out of deep-freezed
The three narratives “Home Soil” by Irene Zabytko, “Song of Napalm” by Bruce Weigl, and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen all have the same feelings of war and memory, although not everyone experiences the same war. Zabytko, Weigl, and Owen used shifting beats, dramatic descriptions, and intense, painful images, to convince us that the horror of war far outweighs the devoted awareness of those who fantasize war and the memories that support it.
The powerful poem ‘Weapons Training’ showcases a sergeant, through malicious words, guiding his troops. However it is through ‘Homecoming’, where Dawe exposes the brutal hopelessness brought forth by the futility of war. Therefore it can be seen that war has an emotional toll on both families and the soldiers. Both poems have a recurring message that all war does is bring loss, death and mourning, showcasing Dawes strong opinions about a futile
Many soldiers who come back from the war need to express how they feel. Many do it in the way of writing. Many soldiers die in war, but the ones who come back are just as “dead.” Many cadets come back with shell shock, amputated arms and legs, and sometimes even their friends aren’t there with them. So during World War I, there was a burst of new art and writings come from the soldiers. Many express in the way of books, poems, short stories and art itself. Most soldiers are just trying to escape. A lot of these soldiers are trying to show what war is really like, and people respond. They finally might think war might not be the answer. This is why writers use imagery, irony and structure to protest war.
Tim O’Brien states in his novel The Things They Carried, “The truths are contradictory. It can be argued, for instance, that war is grotesque. But in truth war is also beauty. For all its horror, you can’t help but gape at the awful majesty of combat” (77). This profound statement captures not only his perspective of war from his experience in Vietnam but a collective truth about war across the ages. It is not called the art of combat without reason: this truth transcends time and can be found in the art produced and poetry written during the years of World War I. George Trakl creates beautiful images of the war in his poem “Grodek” but juxtaposes them with the harsh realities of war. Paul Nash, a World War I artist, invokes similar images in his paintings We are Making a New World and The Ypres Salient at Night. Guilaume Apollinaire’s writes about the beautiful atrocity that is war in his poem “Gala.”
In this essay you will notice the differences and similarities between ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’. ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ was written in nineteenth century by Alfred Lord Tennyson. In contrast, ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was written in the twentieth century by Wilfred Owen. The main similarity we have observed is that they both capture war time experiences. However, the poets’ present these events using their own style, and the effect is two completely different observations of war.
Irony of War Exposed in Dulce et Decorum, Regeneration, and Quiet on the Western Front. Many of the young officers who fought in the Great War enlisted in the army with glowing enthusiasm, believing that war was played in fancy uniforms with shiny swords. They considered war a noble task, an exuberant journey filled with honor and glory. Yet, after a short period on the front, they discovered that they had been disillusioned by the war: fighting earned them nothing but hopelessness, death and terror.
The meaning of "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is "it is sweet and right", yet there is nothing sweet and right about going through what these soldiers went through on a daily basis in WWI. The first few lines use sad and depressing language to express an image of roughy soldiers pushing through an ever threatening battlefield. "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, knock- kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge" (lines 1- 2) is the way Owen describes the soldiers. This dismisses the belief that the soldiers were happy, proud, and patriotic. This shows them as physically and mentally exhausted, still pushing forward towards the one and only goal of surviving. Their disintegrating body reflects their inner turmoil and tiredness. The horrendous quality of war is shown by the description of the soldiers "men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on, blood shod" (lines 5-6) this enhances the fact that war is not normal. It seems unreal, much like that of a nig...
The poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen portrays the horrors of World War I with the horrific imagery and the startling use of words he uses. He describes his experience of a gas attack where he lost a member of his squadron and the lasting impact it had on him. He describes how terrible the conditions were for the soldiers and just how bad it was. By doing this he is trying to help stop other soldiers from experiencing what happened in a shortage of time.
Comparing two war poems written by Wilfred Owen: Dulce et decorum Est. and Anthem for Doomed Youth. In this essay I will be comparing two war poems written by Wilfred Owen: ‘Dulce et decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’. By Comparing the two I will be able to distinguish the fact that Wilfred Owen is very anti-propaganda and that's why he feels so strongly about this. The two poems have many similarities but also a fair amount of differences, which I will be discussing in this essay.
Wilfred Owen is a tired soldier on the front line during World War I. In the first stanza of Dulce Et Decorum Est he describes the men and the condition they are in and through his language shows that the soldiers deplore the conditions. Owen then moves on to tell us how even in their weak human state the soldiers march on, until the enemy fire gas shells at them. This sudden situation causes the soldiers to hurriedly put their gas masks on, but one soldier did not put it on in time. Owen tells us the condition the soldier is in, and how, even in the time to come he could not forget the images that it left him with. In the last stanza he tells the readers that if we had seen what he had seen then we would never encourage the next generation to fight in a war.
Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” makes the reader acutely aware of the impact of war. The speaker’s experiences with war are vivid and terrible. Through the themes of the poem, his language choices, and contrasting the pleasant title preceding the disturbing content of the poem, he brings attention to his views on war while during the midst of one himself. Owen uses symbolism in form and language to illustrate the horrors the speaker and his comrades go through; and the way he describes the soldiers, as though they are distorted and damaged, parallels how the speaker’s mind is violated and haunted by war.
The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, and Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen are two poems which were written during the First World War, and both being written about this conflict, they share the same theme of war poetry. However, the two poems deal very differently with the subject of war, resulting in two very different pieces of writing.
Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" was written during his World War I experience. Owen, an officer in the British Army, deeply opposed the intervention of one nation into another. His poem explains how the British press and public comforted themselves with the fact that all the young men dying in the war were dieing noble, heroic deaths. The reality was quite different: They were dieing obscene and terrible deaths. Owen wanted to throw the war in the face of the reader to illustrate how vile and inhumane it really was. He explains in his poem that people will encourage you to fight for your country, but, in reality, fighting for your country is simply sentencing yourself to an unnecessary death. The breaks throughout the poem indicate the clear opposition that Owen strikes up. The title of the poem means "It is good and proper to die for your country," and then Owen continues his poem by ending that the title is, in fact, a lie.
The poem 'Homecoming' originates from Bruce Dawe. Its journey depicts the aspects of war and its devastations upon human individuals. Using mainly the Vietnam War as a demonstration for its destructions.