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Drunk With Fatigue Poetry Analysis

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Through the poems Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori and Futility, Wilfred Owen uses the theme horror of war to convey the horrific mental and physical terrors that roamed WW1. Wilfred Owen emphasises on the mental and physical effects that war causes, dehumanisation and the loss of faith which resulted in Owens mind.

Owen uses imagery in the poem Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori to demonstrate the terrible mental and physical effects that the war causes to the men. ‘Drunk with fatigue;’ helps to convey the exhaustion and suffering that the men have to endure through their time at war. The use of this metaphor depicts the tiredness of these soldiers. They are compared to being under the effects of alcohol, which leads to the lack of coordination and awareness of their surroundings. Wilfred Owen uses the semicolons to expand his sentences to add more depth into his description of the horror of war that the soldiers are going through and facing through. Continuing from the previous quote ‘deaf even to the hoots’ demonstrates that the soldiers are no longer affected by the sound of the bombs shooting through the sky because they have been living with it for years on a day to day basis and are officially used to it. Owen also expresses the use of onomatopoeia through the word ‘hoots’. …show more content…

It’s a profound emotional response to the suffering soldier because it depicts a dismissive and violent action indicating that they didn’t show any compassion or grief towards him. This also conveys that this tragedy and death is very common in the life of these men and live in this horror of war every day. The chessboard in the visual representation depicts the pawns as the soldiers that go through the same type of tragedy in the

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