Use of Imagery and Metaphor in Wilfred Owens Dulce et Decorum Est

Use of Imagery and Metaphor in Wilfred Owens Dulce et Decorum Est through vivid resource and compelling metaphors Dulce et Decorum Est gives the reader the exact stamp the power wanted. The rime is an anti-war verse by Wilfred Owen and makes great use of these devices. This poem is very effective because of its excellent manipulation of the mechanical and emotional part of poetry. Owens use of exact diction and vivid figurative language emphasizes his point, presentation that war is terrible and devastating. Furthermore, the utilization of extremely graphic imagery adds regular more to his argument. Through the effective use of all three of these tools, this poem conveys a strong meaning and persuasive argument. To have a erupt understanding of the poem, it is important to understand some of Wilfred Owen?s history. Owen enlisted in the Artists? Rifles on October 21st 1915. He was eventually drafted to France in 1917. The birth of Owen?s imagery hyphen used in his more famous poems was during his stay at Craiglockhart War Hospital, where he met Siegfried Sassoon (another great war poet). Owen?s new style (the one that was used in Dulce et Decorum Est) embelished many poems between magisterial 1917 and Septermber 1918 (Spartacus network Encyclopedia). On November 4, 1918, Wilfred Owed was killed by enemy machine gun cauterise as he tried to get his company across the Sambre epithelial duct (Lane 167). The poem tells of a trip that Owen and his platoon of exhausted soldiers had while they were painfully devising their way back to base after a harrowing fourth dimension at the battlefront when a gas shell was fired at them. As a result of this, a soldier in his platoon was fatally gassed. Owen has arranged the poem in three sectio... ...rase Dulce et decorum est pro partria mori means, It is novel and becoming to die for ones country. Owen calls this a lie by using unplayful diction, vivid comparisons, and graphic images to have the reader feel disgusted at what war is capable of. This poem is extremely effective as an anti-war poem, fashioning war seem absolutely horrid and revolting, just as the author wanted it to. Works Cited Lane, Arthur E. An Adequate Response. Detroit Wayne State University Press, 1972. Owen, Wilfred. Dulce et Decorum Est. Literature and the written material Process. Fifth ed. Ed. Elizabeth McMahhan, et al. Upper Saddle River, NJ Prentice Hall, 1999. 582-583. Owen, Wilfred, Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2000. htt//encarta.msn.com Wilfred Owen. Spartacus Internet Encyclopedia 2000. http//www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jowen.htm