Similarities Between Dulce Et Decorum Est And Anthem For Doomed Youth

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Wilfred Owen’s rich graphic imagery and gruesome description beckons us into his world of brutality and horror. In ‘Dulce et decorum est’ and ‘Anthem for doomed youth’ he displays the pity of war and compels the audience to feel pity. Wilfred Owen wrote only about ‘the pity of war’, not ‘anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion or power’. Owen destroyed the romanticisation of the war by presenting the dehumanisation of it to the naive civilians on the home front. In both poems he vividly illustrates the changing conditions on the war front, his experiences as a soldier making it much more personal. Undoubtedly, Owen’s poetry leaves an unforgettable impact that will change the way people view war forever.
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