This essay explores two artists, Franz Marc, Brett Whitely and two of their artworks depicting animal scenes. Franz Marc’s ‘Tiger’, ‘Blue Horse 1’ and Brett Whitley’s Giraffe and Hyena. These four artworks will be compared and contrasted using the structural and the subjective frame. In...
War has now become the norm because of its impact on society. Poets include literary devices in their works to help illustrate their meaning. With this, each writer is able to share their protests against different wars clearly. Writers have used literary devices throughout all...
Using poetic structure, language and style, Wilfred Owen portrays the theme of suffering in his poems ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Exposure’. Both agree on displaying the truthful, negative views on war but narrate on different aspects of it. ‘Exposure’ expresses war as a disorganised,...
There is one certainty to war- that soldiers will suffer, but many civilians and volunteers wrongly have positive relations to war. Wilfred Owen’s poems ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Exposure’ offers insight into this very topic and ultimately agree that war should be displayed truthfully...
Wilfred Owen's poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est," is a vivid portrayal of the horrors of war and the misleading propaganda that encouraged young men to enlist in the military during World War I. The poem reveals the harsh reality of war, its effects on soldiers,...
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Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen were both English soldier poets of the First World War but their views were very different and reflected the chasm that separated them in terms of actual war experiences. Both of these famous poets display the horrors of war in...
Soldiers deserve the utmost respect, but they deserve it for the right reasons. They give up their lives to protect their country. Giving up their lives means that they are giving up time to spend with families, giving up certain freedoms, and sometimes it could...
The poetries and prose texts that I studied in the paper 2 section dealt with topics that include hope/dreams, pride, greed and freedom. I have noticed many of the texts and poems like ‘The Necklace’ dealt with the theme of pride; In the Story Mathilde...
It is the view of Marxist criticism that literary texts either support or subvert the existing economic and social systems. Wilfred Owen uses his war poetry to subvert and criticise the air of patriotic ideology engrained in British culture during the First World War, where...
In different ways, both Gwendolyn Brooks’ and Wilfred Owen’s poems, ‘Gay Chaps at the Bar’ and ‘The Send Off”, respectively, explore the complex relationships that both soldiers and civilians have with war and home. In Brooks’ poem this is done by highlighting the fear of...
‘The worst injuries of war are emotional not physical.’ Compare and contrast Wilfred Owen’s poetry and Pat Barker’s ‘Regeneration’ in light of this quotation. Firstly, Barker and Owen focus on the visceral imagery of eyes emphasizing the physical brutality of war. In ‘Regeneration’ Barker introduces...
Wilfred Owen exposes the misleading propaganda through his negative insights conveying betrayal and the physical and psychological atrocities of war as integral aspects of conflict and war. He explores this within “Dulce Et Decorum Est” (1917) which follows young men who are subjected to the...