Dulce Et Decorum Est Poetry Analysis

1. Which poetic technique/s has Wilfred Owen used in his poems, to develop the moods of depression and anger towards World War One?

Wilfred Owen used dialogue and metaphors in poems Inspection and Dulce Et Decorum Est this created powerful images of the depression and anger felt towards war. Metaphors comparing one thing to another without using “like” or “as” help explain how the soldiers thought and felt and the dialogue brings to life the conversations and tells of how the soldiers saw the world around them. In Inspection the line, “well, blood is dirt” is said in conversation between two soldiers, they talk of how their field marshal does not care about what they have been through, “Far off to where his wound had bled and almost merged for ever into clay. 
” Tells of how the blood stain

The poems use powerful language to help display these horrific events, the similes compare what is happening to other events using “like” or “as”. In Dead-Beat the similes, “lay stupid like a cod, heavy like meat” describe how the soldier no longer cares what happens, he is unmotivated and worn down. As it is told later on that the soldier dies it is shown that no one cares about his loss they laugh as they have lost dead weight. In Dulce Et Decorum Est, “flound’ring like a man in fire or lime” tells of how the man caught in the gas is chocking, trying to escape the gas cloud desperately clinging on to life. “Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud”, explains how the soldier dying of gas poisoning is coughing up blood and his death is not pleasant and quiet, it rings through the trenches reminding everyone of their own mortality and the war they are fighting. These poems display how little the commanders cared for the dead and tell of how fed up Wilfred Owen was about this, they tell of how horrific death was yet also show how common it was for the