Wilfred Owen And Dulce Et Decorum Est By David W. Powell

The narrative from numerous media sources mentions how veterans struggle when they return from wars or fighting; however, they portray a certain media that leaves others voiceless. Wilfred Owen and David W. Powell try to combat those discussions with their true experiences and sights from their wars in trying to find their voice again. By utilizing their words, literary devices, and punctuation choices, both writers attack media and propaganda for fantasizing about the wars that occur. If men come back, they tend to have PTSD from the sights, so by describing those sights, Owen and Powell try to alter the minds of the reader to become more empathic towards veterans. By doing such, they begin to receive their voice again. Although neither

Unlike “Dulce et Decorum Est,” Powell does not use punctuation except for the beginning, line twenty-two, and the ending. The main section of the poem is a constant rambling of the experiences and sights that Powell saw while in Vietnam. Line twenty-two, “Hit head and fell in open field,” is as if Powell lost consciousness, and he thought his life would end there. Because the Powell is at home in the beginning and the end, his sentences have proper structure with subjects and punctuation as if being at home brings structure into one’s life. Unless someone has been in war, they will not understand that the military brings chaos into one’s life which the men feel as if they cannot express their true experiences, voicelessness. By removing a subject from the “sentences,” Powell is removing himself from those experiences as if he wants to detach himself from the man that he was there. Also, the rambling, main section of the poem has few emotional words since at that time, he was desensitized by the sights. Removing punctuation, removing subjects, and removing emotional words are all examples of how Powell has felt voiceless once returning from Vietnam that translate into his