"The poetry of Wilfred Owen offers more then a graphic description of war"
            
             The poetry composed by Wilfred Owen offers more than a graphic description of war. With the use of many poetic techniques, Owen effectively conveys many issues in relation to war throughout his poems The Send Off, Anthem For The Doomed Youth and Futility.
            
             The poem The Send Off does not give a graphic description of war but instead entails the occurrences, which took place during the farewelling of those soldiers who were venturing to the war front. Incorporation of personification, including "signals nodded" and "lamps winked" and similes such as "so secretly like wrongs hushed up" help illustrate the conspiracy of the war kept from the soldiers for assurance of further enlistments. Repetition of " a few, a few, too few" emphasises and teaches the issue to the responder that many soldiers would not return from war. The use of imagery "white flowers" conveys a double significance – flowers for celebrating and white for mourning. In giving the flowers to the departing soldier, the women who thought they were expressing support were actually garlanding them for the slaughter they would later on face. The poem also offers the message that war should not be a celebration. This is conveyed through the inclusion of emotive language which carry negative connotations such as "creep, silent, still, beatings" "up half-known roads". Such words portray war as a negative issue and evoke feeling in the responder. The negative emotive language also addresses the issue that for those surviving soldiers, their homecoming would be a shameful return.
            
             Like The Send Off, the sonnet Anthem For the Doomed Youth offers more then a graphic description of the horrors of war. The title itself has significant use of assonance. The sound of "doomed youth" is intended to be drawn out, ...