What do you learn about the First World War from your reading of

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What do you learn about the First World War from your reading of

Wilfred Owens poetry?

From Wilfred Owens poems you can learn so many different things. He

was one of a group of soldiers, he wrote about the war as he

experienced it. So all of his poems are primary evidence because the

poems were wrote by him when the war was going on.

We can prove that Wilfred Owen was in the War by using a quote from a

poem he wrote. The poem is titled 'Dulce et Decorum Est'. In the poem

he gives his opinion on war. He says

"Dulce et decorum est Pro Partria mori"

This means it is good and beautiful to die for your country. He wrote

it in Latin, the rest of the poem is english. By using Latin I think

it creates a distinguished impact on the reader. It draws their

attention to it. Honestly, Wilfred Owen does not believe it actually

is good to die for your country. He is being critical.

The opposition to this view of war would be a poet named Jessie Pope.

Wilfred Owens and Jessie popes' poetry is very different, Jessie

Popes' is usually more of a poem to recruit soldiers and get the point

across that if you fight for your country war is good. Wilfred Owens

poems are far more descriptive and appeal to the senses, giving us an

insight on life in world war one.

In the poem 'The Sentry' he appeals to the senses by describing the

weather as "water falls of slime" and describing the smell

"Stank old and sour."

We can learn from this poem that physical conditions in the war were

awful.

There would be high danger of dying and injuring yourself because

bullets were being shot everywhere and gas attacks were occuring

frequently.

"Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!"(From Dulce et Decorum Est)

We learn how the gas attacks effect the soldiers in the poem 'Dulce et

Decorum Est' there is a section in the poem where Wilfred describes a

gas attack.

"Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, A under a green

sea I saw him drowning."

The misty panes were Wilfreds eyes; they were misted because of the

gas in the air. He describes the colour of the gas as 'green' and the

amount of it as a 'sea' so it spreads quite a distance and widths as

seas are generally known for being large. Green is known as the colour

of envy and maybe the gas is representing the opposisitions jealously

towards the enemy that they are winning.

In this poem Wilfred describes what the soldiers are like in their

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