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Thursday, 31 January 2019

Write an essay about how Owens poetry describes the plight of the

Write an essay about how Owens poetry describes the plight of thesoldiers.In many of Wilfred Owens poems, he describes the suffering and the distortion of the common soldier during war, not only on the battlefront, yet he also describes the after-effects of war and its cruelty. Owenspoetry is inclined towards and elegiac nature with the subprogram toarouse ruefulness and to stimulate remembrance. Owen is usually best whenthe emotion of grief predominates over disgust in his poems and whentribute is paid to the men who died as cattle rather than whencriticism is directly made to the perpetrators of war. Owen refers tohis poems as elegies, but they offer no consolation to the readers,serving instead to warn them of the straight nature of war. To create hismoral lesson, Owen recalls certain incidents in which he analysesthe suffering of incident soldiers lacking identity bones withoutnumber.Owen, having been a soldier of exalted rank, and having had a troop underhis hands often br ings out the public opinion of guilt and shame in hispoems the guilt of having led hi...

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