Rhetorical Devices Used In Wilfred Owen's Poetry

World war one was one of the bloodiest wars in human history sparking controversy writings and experiences that would shine light on what it was for men.”Some [men] cease feeling through war having seen what they had seen and been through what they’ve been through. Compassion flees from men who sit in trenches day and night listening to explosions and screams of the dying every step of the way, while also stepping on their fallen friends who rot in the sun. through all of this Owen suggests that life is not expendable as it’s lead to believed by the heads of government. Feeling it is not right Owen expressed his experiences in poetry form. Through the use of rhetorical devices specific diction, and tone. Owen shares his endeavours. In the poem “Insensibility” by Wilfred Owen about war is an example of repetition and contrast. Owen uses specific diction and repetition to show us the horrors men like him face. Shows in stanza one that men can sever themselves from all feelings shown by the words “ veins running cold” and saying men should not be used for poems but for

Nostalgia is shown through every stanza showing us that being in a soldier's shoe at the time of the great trench wars of 1914 is not an easy thing. Using this tone brings on a sense of pity corresponding together beautiful. the reader feels sorry for the men losing their sense of humanity, the respect for the dead, and the agony of these men. When talking about a subject like this what needs to be in mind is Owen has been through this himself so he has resentment and anger leading to him using this tone in his work. He feels as if he has not been compensated enough for doing this for his country and seeing his fellow man, including himself, turned into animals. During the stanzas there are certain points where the shift of these tones take on one