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War Poems of Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Explication of Wilfred Owen's Anti War Poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

In six pages this paper examines how poet Wilfred Owen portrayed sacrificing one's life for country in the antiwar poem 'Dulce Et ...

Horrors of War in 2 Poems by Wilfred Owen

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

Wilfred Owen's First World War Poetry

continues as follows: "And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-leads, Which long t...

Wilfred Owen's Depiction of Death in War in 'Dulce et Decorum Est'

In five pages this paper argues that the poet's message is in contradiction to the standard notion that dying for country is an he...

Isaac Rosenberg's and Wilfred Owen's First World War Poetry

poem continues and discusses how life was once perhaps simple for these soldiers, but all innocence is past: "Their flowers the te...

Analysis of Poems by Wilfred Owen and Robert Browning

at the same time the calmness of it all makes it quite dramatic. The narrator does not see the action as dramatic, however, and si...

Analysis of 'Dulce et Decorum Est' by Wilfred Owen

behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time, But someone still was yelling out...

First World War According to Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen

In five pages this paper compares the views of the First World War that are presented in The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy and Dul...

'Arms and the Boy' by Wilfred Owen

"Since a boy is not armed by nature, society must provide him with man-made weapons" (Hibberd, 1986, p. 143). Furthermore, accordi...

Comparative Poetic Analysis of 'Facing It' by Yusef Komunyakaa and 'Dulce Et Decorum' by Wilfred Owen

timeframe or the conflict. Both clearly make the point that a person is forever changed by war. Interestingly, both use similar ...

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen

This essay pertains to a Wilfred Owen's WWI poem that offers stark and vivid repudiation of the Latin phrase that it is sweet to ...

Wilfred Owen/"Dulce et Decorum Est"

This essay pertains to Wilfred Owen's poem, which captures the horror of World War I. Five pages in length, seven sources are cite...

Two Views on War: Tennyson, Owen

This essay presents the argument that "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson and Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Deco...

War's Realities and Poetry

be born of patriotism and love for their country, as there are few things that would inspire the soldiers to put up with such bad ...

Poetry and War

In five pages this paper mentions the poems 'To Lucasta' by Richard Lovelace and 'Dover Beach' by Matthew Arnold in this contrast ...

Craiglockert Meeting Between Sassoon and Owen

die in war for brothers. Certainly at this point it is evident that he regards dying for ones country as truly dulce et decorum: a...

The Poetry of Owen and Contextual Criticism

of publicly responding to criticisms over his exclusion of Owen that Yeats made the remark in question (Rusche, 2010). His primary...

Children's Behavior and the Influence of Parents

In seven pages this paper discusses how parents influence child behavior in a consideration of Tamarla Owen's 6 year old son's kil...

Wislawa Szymborska's War Poem 'The End and the Beginning'

cannot afford to become too emotional over the huge of amount of dead bodies that require disposal. There are simply too many. It ...

Poetry and its Elements

a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

This essay offers an analystical discussion of Browning's most famous poem, My Last Duchess. The writer discusses the dramatic si...

W.B. Yeats/An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

Gary Soto/”Oranges”

trees carry with them the promise of spring and new growth, new beginnings, which is evocative of the fact that the two children s...

Poe/Annabel Lee

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

Comparing Poems about War to Beowulf

it is essentially the duty of this narrator. Beowulf is a man who sees his duty as that which involves risking his life. He goes...

Impact of the Great War on Western Literature

would be sent to war in just a few years, underscores the awful waste of youth, of life, of promise. The final stanza, in particu...

Robert Lowell/Skunk Hour

farmer/is first selectman in our village;/shes in her dotage" (lines 4-6). As these lines indicate, the poem is in free verse. B...

War and Its Futility as Conveyed by Poetry

In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...

Canada's Consolidation and Sir Wilfred Laurier

Laurier throughout his term of office, particularly when the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan were created in 1905" (Fell...