Wilfred Owen Poems

             Demonstrate the way in which particular users of language or characteristics of style had significant impact in the texts you have studied.
             In the poems "Anthem for doomed youth", "Dulce et decorum est" and "Strange Meeting" written by Wilfred Owen. The language he uses in these poems portray the war through his eyes and how he saw the war. Throughout the poems he uses a lot of similes to emphasis how he felt about the war.
             There are a lot of similes in "Dulce et decorum est". "Knock-kneed, coughing like hags" meaning that they were in an exhausted state. And also "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks", which compares the soldiers to dirty old beggars, slouching along. In Owens other poems like "Anthem for doomed youth" the similes show what a disgrace war is how it misleads the youth by propagation, like Hitler did to get his fellow Germans to believe that Hitler was a good person and doing everything for the good of the people, "What passing-bells for those who die as cattle?" Wilfred Owen uses these similes for imagery impact. To get the images out.
             The idea that Wilfred Owen wanted to give to the reader through his poems is that war is a pitiful thing and should never happen, because of all the death. "The pity of war, the pity war distilled".
             Throughout all the three poems there is an immense amount of imagery given to the reader. "Gas! Gas! Quick boys! – an ecstasy of fumbling!" Showing soldiers getting gassed and some soldiers not being able to put on their gas mask. "The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells" Making you imagine and hear the sound of the bullets screaming past your head in a battlefield. The impact that the imagery gives you as an insight to what the soldiers went through while in World War 1.
             There are a lot of words in Wilfred Owen's poems to show his anger towards the
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