Poetry, Post-1914 – Literature Coursework

With detailed reference to leash poems, comp be and demarcation the poets presentation of war done their choice of language and form.World war One was one of the most influential events over Western literature. The three poems which I leave behind analyse in this essay ar Dulce Et decorousness Est by Wilfred Owen, An Irish Airman Fore weighs His oddment by W.B. Yeats and Anthem for fated youthfulness alike by Wilfred Owen. Poets such as Owen decided to redeem very powerful poems at this period of prison term to show the earthly concern what was going on in the war. By these poems be written and create in various newspapers, the world would get to see what was really misadventure in the war, preferably than seeing all the propaganda that m some(prenominal) governments showed the public.The forms of the three poems are mainly very different. Anthem for Doomed youth is written as a sonnet, which is generally associated with love. This association suggests that Anthem was written as a celebration of their lives, rather than as a poem to commemorate their lives. some former(a) slight similarity is that Anthem and Dulce are both written development stanzas, rather than An Irishman which is written in free form, even though it is importantly biger than Anthem. The rhyme schemes of Dulce Et decorum Est and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death are the same, following the ABAB pattern, however Anthem For Doomed youth has a very different rhyme scheme, sometimes role ABAB and sometimes using AABB the times in which these rules are used are very random.Dulce Et Decorum Est was written by Owen to tell the world some what was really occurrence in the war. Most of the poem is made up of phrases describing the torment and bruise that s oldishiers went through during this time. An type of one of these phrases is when he says Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, by using this simile, Owen is conveying to the au stallnce that more soldiers were injured and suffering badly during the war. Yeats uses a similar technique to get the message of bad conditions through to the audience, he says Those I counterbalance I do not abominate, stating that he doesnt even know the people that he is fighting, so cannot move over hate for them, even though they could kill or injure him. He is also showing a different tone to the poem, proverb that it is indifferent, steady down and detached.An Irish Airman Foresees His Death is written in root person, well-favored it a personal feel, making you feel like you know the Irish Airman and understand his problems and sorrows. Contrary to this, both Anthem for Doomed Youth and Dulce Et Decorum Est are written in third person, making the endorser feel like the poems are more of a story than a person account of the war, even though Owen fought in the war.There are many messages in each of the poems. One of the most easy to see hidden message occurs in Anthem for Doomed Youth, parameter three is the l ongest pull back throughout the whole poem and it says this only when the stuttering rifles raid battle. This phrase can be interpreted in many different ways. One of these could be that the stuttering rifles are the prayers that are being said for the soldiers bring in been saying, however the stuttering rifles could mean the rifles are causing a long and painful death, and this is, in fact the reason why the annotation is so long. In Dulce Et Decorum Est the same technique is also used. This time the longest line is the second line which says Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we blame through the sludge. This line is saying how the soldiers were so injured and bony out that they cursed through the sludge meaning it took them a long time. This is the reason why the line is so long. The longest line of An Irish Airman Foresees His Death does however not follow the same pattern.The first line of Anthem is written in the form of a rhetorical question, this question makes you thin k about what go pasted to all the people that died like cows die in inhuman ways, and just being slaughtered. Dulce immediately starts by using a simile Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, this simile is showing you the extent of the injuries suffered, it made them bent like old people would be, not young people who should have fit and powerful bodies. I know that I shall attain my fate is the opening line of An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, this immediate impact, by the man saying he is going to die is very dramatic it engages the reader and creates unbelief about what is going to happen.The past, present and future are all mentioned in An Irish Airman Foresees His Death. I know that I shall meet my fate is the airman saying that he knows that he will die soon, this is in the present, The years to espouse, seemed waste of breath is saying that the years to come seem a waste of time, talking about the future and A waste of breath the years behind is saying that the y ears departed by also seem like a waste of time. This use of all three tenses is giving the audience a briefing about what happened in the past, what is happening at the moment and what the airman fears will happen in the future. Both Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth are written in the present because they have a main finding of telling the audience what is happening, rather than what happen in the past and what will happen in the future.During the early 1900s many British people were unearthly, rather than today, where only a small fraction of people keep any religious observance. The fact that people kept to there religion meant that a lot of this type of imagery was put into poems during the war. Anthem for Doomed Youth has all the components in it to tell you what a funeral for one of the fallen soldiers would be like, it mentions bells as in bells at a church, but Owen whitethorn also be referring to the noise of the rifles, it also mentions prayer which coul d also be the expect that the soldiers had in order that they would survive and it also mentions many others including choirs which could be the other soldiers. Similarly to Anthem, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death also uses religious imagery this occurs when Yeats says my country is Kiltartan Cross, this can be perceived in the way that Kiltartan Cross is his religion, because it is where he is from, and he has dandy passion to fight for them, in order that they win.Both Dulce Et Decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth describe injured servicemen in great detail. This is done because the injuries were so great that some of the soldiers had, the poets felt a responsibility of telling the public what was happening. One example of this poetic device in Anthem for Doomed Youth is when it saysThe pallor of girls brows shall be their pallTheir flowers the tenderness of diligent mindsThis is saying that there faces were the blazon of a coffin cloth (white) and that they had wounded minds like a patient in hospital. One type of this imagery used in Dulce is when Owen saysIf you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth- vitiate lungsThis is saying that blood was spooling out of the corrupted lungs, making you imagine a dead or struggling soldier on the floor with blood oozing out of him. Contrary to these dickens poems An Irish Airman Foresees His Death does not describe injured soldiers this may be because Yeats wanted to make his poem seem different to many poems which were appearing in the media at the time.After writing this essay, I have realised that different poets use different techniques to write their poems, making them likable to different types of audiences.