Essays on Wilfred Owen

Both RC Sherriff and Wilfred Owen are war poets whom first-hand experienced the horrors of war alongside six million British men in the First World War, in which over 700,000 men were killed. The writer’s works were based on their individual experiences in the war,...

Line one of Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” wonders if any soldiers, those who got killed on the battlefield in a similar fashion as animals butchered for food, will hear the mourners who commemorate their deaths by ringing instruments. Then the next three lines,...

“Saving Private Ryan”, a 1998 film directed by Steven Spielberg, received critical acclaim for its realistic, graphic and brutal depiction of the horrific experiences encountered by members of the armed services during the “D-Day” invasion in World War II. Approximately seventy-five years earlier, Wilfred Owen...

“Dulce Et Decorum Est,” is a descriptive war poem written by Wilfred Owen. I imagine it was hard for Mr. Owen to write about his own experiences in war, especially if he had PTSD. Many men and women can not talk about what happened to...

Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce at Decorum Est” explains his personal experience while fighting during the First World War. The author’s voice used inside of this poem is perceived as horrifyingly ironic and against war entirely based on how Owen describes his involvement in the war....

In the war poem ‘Exposure’, Wilfred Owen’s choice of words helps to describe the extremes to which he and his men were exposed to during the war, and how the First World War affected soldiers both mentally and physically. Through his use of alliteration and...

Wilfred Owen’s poem ‘Exposure’ and Alfred Tennyson’s poem ‘Charge of the Light Brigade’ both explore the theme of loss but in different ways. Owen’s ‘Exposure’ is a misery-filled, first person account of a soldier fighting in WW1; he suggests that all the men with him...

Wilfred Owen’s “Anthem for Doomed Youth” and Carol Ann Duffy’s “War Photographer” are poems that, through the use of language and structural techniques, emphasize the suffering experienced in war and more specifically, both highlight the triviality of a soldier’s life in the context of war....

“War is sweet to those who haven’t experienced it.” This is a famous Lation war proverb which applies to every country. As it says, sometimes war is easily consumed by people without considering having trauma after war. Dulce et Decorum est written by Wilfred Owen...

Although Owen acknowledges and exposes the devastating consequences of World War One, he also highlights clearly the enormous sense of injustice for young people in the aftermath of conflict. By doing this through Owen´s choices of language, use of flashback and the pregnant choice of...