The antiwar poems 'Anthem for Doomed Youth' and 'Dulce et Decorum Est' are contrasted and compared in eight pages. There are two sources in the bibliography.
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of the greatest war poets and has written many powerful poems about the ravages of war and the rantings and ravings of those in war-torn sites. This paper will
compare and contrast two of his war poems, Dulce et Decorum est and Anthem for Doomed Youth. THE TWO POEMS Both poems are grim reminders of the ravages of
war. Wilfred Owen was not afraid to give the most graphic descriptions of the truth about war and what it can do. Although Dulce et Decorum est is
a more cruel and ugly look at the battlefield than is Anthem for Doomed Youth, neither one is for the faint of heart. And yet in the face of the
ugliness of the truths held within these two works it is easily seen the vast talent and beauty of what Wilfred Owen was able to express. That he could
take an act like war and write truthfully about it showed his fearlessness in his intent. Without holding back any of the grim reminders of death on the battlefields
is proof positive that his capable mind when he sat down to pen these and other war poems could make his words into a work of art. Owen could
obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause us to recoil from them
at the same time. Knowing full well that the words so ably penned by him were the truth is what keeps us reading. Owen describes scenes that the
reader knows in his heart that truly takes place yet will never (for some of us) be in a position to experience firsthand. Those who have experienced the