Wilfred Owens Poetry and Pity of War Essay -- Wilfred Owen War Poems

Wilfred Owens Poetry and Pity of WarThrough his poetry Wilfred Owen wished to convey, to the generalpublic, the PITY of war. In a detailed examination of three poems,with references to others, show the different ways in which heachieved thisWilfred Owen was born in Oswestry, 18th March 1893. He was work inFrance when the war began, tutoring a prominent French family. Whenthe war started he began serving in the Manchester Regiment at MilfordCamp as a Lieutenant.He fought on the Western Front for six months in 1917, and was thendiagnosed with War Neurosis (shell shock). Because of this he was sentto Craiglockhart hospital for treatment. In his stay at CraiglockhartHospital Wilfred Owen met Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon was also a poet,and the two became good friends. The two friends compared and editedtheir poems, and Sassoon introduced Wilfred Owen to some publishers.Whilst he was in Craiglockhart he wrote such poems as Dulce etDecorem Est and Anthem for doom Youth. He used his poems as acathartic experience to help him forget and overcome his experienceson the battlefield.Through a detailed examination of the poems Dulce et Decorem Est,Disabledand Anthem for Doomed Youth with reference to other poems by WilfredOwen, it can be seen that, although he uses different political forms,styles, and devices, and he addresses his readers from differentauthorial stances, evoking feelings from great anger and sourness toterrible sadness the end result is always the same he shows the pityof war.Dulce et Decorem Est was written by Wilfred Owen whilst he was havingtreatment at Craiglockhart, it is one of his or so famous poems. Stanzaone sets the scene. Owen takes his ti... ...there is no glory involved. Thispoem gets across the madness of war, and that it must not becontinued.Owen expresses feelings of bitter hatred for the war, and he letsthose feelings out in Dulce et Decorem est. He is angry that war isallowed to be continued, that the public are lied to, and thecondit ions the soldiers have to cope with. He was in the war himself,he knew what he was talk to the highest degree. Owen has a very strong use ofimagery, which I think helps get across his message. Althoughsometimes I feel he can be a bit too bitter, and lose the plotslightly, his poetry is extremely effective. He is asking his readerjust to take some time to think about the war, ignore the propagandaand see what is really happening. All of this put together conveys thepity of war, by using graphic imagery, metaphors and similes, andoften use of onomatopoeia.