Comparing two war poems written by Wilfred Owen: Dulce et decorum Est E

Comparing devil war poems written by Wilfred Owen Dulce et decorum Est and hymn for goddam Youth.In this essay I will be comparing two war poems written by WilfredOwen Dulce et decorum Est and Anthem for Doomed Youth. Bycomparing the two I will be able to distinguish the fact that WilfredOwen is very anti-propaganda and why he feels so potently about this.The two poems have many similarities but also a fair amount ofdifferences, which I will be discussing in this essay.The two poems have a strongly anti war message and in twain the victimsof war are the young men whos lives are wasted. Dulce et decorumEst uses the description of a flub attack to show how horrific thereality of war is. Owen describes the victim with,The white eyes writhing in his facethe bloodgargling from thefroth-corrupted lungs.The physical execration of this helps to exercise his message. It isaddressed to the propaganda poet Jessie Pope and tells her that it isa lie to say that it is sweet and honorable to die for ones country.A similar message in Anthem for Doomed Youth describes theslaughtered young men who die as cattle. Owen expresses his anger ina set of contrasts between a real funeral and the neglect of a funeralfor these young men. For example, instead of a service with a choir,they only have the shrill demented choirs of wailing shells.As you would expect, the tone and mood of both poems is deeply seriousas Owen has a strong message in both of them. However, they aredifferent. Dulce et decorum Est expresses a great deal of horror andanger. The horror is set aside for the terrible pain and terror of thegas attack, not only for the victim but also for the poet. He writes,In a... ...ack, making a strong message tocontradict the vague, Latin phrase about how sweet it is to die foryour country.In Anthem for Doomed Youth Owen develops a singe image, the judgment ofthe funeral ceremony for the dead. The first line asks about thepassing bells and the rest of the octave describes the varioussounds of war, which are substituted for the funeral bells. Thisincludes the monstrous anger of guns, the rattling of the rifflesand the wailing of the shells. The sestet begins by asking where arethe candles for the funeral service but goes on to tell us that holyglimmers of goodbyes in the eyes of the boy soldiers will have toinstead. The funeral cloth lay over the coffin is replaced by thepallor of girls brows. Instead of flowers, they have the tendernessof patient minds. All the images are based on the originalcomparison.