Wilfred Owen was a famous poet born on 18th March 1893 to a railway worker. He enlisted in WW1 in October of 1915 and was commissioned as a second Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment in France. While in France Owen started to write poems about his time in the war and in 1917 he suffered shell-shock and was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital to recover. There he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon. Owen showed his poetry to Sassoon and he encouraged Owen to keep writing poetry. Sassoon showed Owen the poetry of H.G. Wells and Arnold Bennett and helped Owen get some of his poems published while he was recovering. In August 1918, Owen was declared fit and was sent to the Western Front but in November of that year Owen was killed by a machine-gun fire a week before the war ended and only five of Owen’s poems were published while he was alive. The aim of Owen’s poem ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ is to show the reality of war from a soldier’s point of view. This essay will represent the …show more content…
The word ‘limping’ means a person walking with difficulty because of a damaged or stiff leg and ‘deaf even to the hoots of tired, outstripped Five-Nines’ which shows that the soldiers have become deaf because their too exhausted and that the bombs have cause shell-shock. The word ‘Five-Nines’ are highly explosive bombs. Owen used an enjambment because he wanted the reader to feel concern for the soldiers. In Stanza Three, Owen uses power of three to emphasise the soldiers’ reaction to the gas attack ‘guttering, choking, drowning’ which shows us that the soldiers are fighting for their lives. The word ‘drowning’ means a person dying by inhaling water. Owen used power of three because he wanted the reader to feel scared for the