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The Soldier Poem Analysis

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In the poems “Dulce et Decorum Est,” by Wilfred Owen and “The Soldier,” by Rupert Brooke the authors tend to use diction, figurative language, and voice to express their attitudes towards the war. While they both use similar characteristics towards the war they also have highly different ones. The first poem, “The soldier” uses diction, rhyme scheme, personification, and voice to show that he thinks it is great honor to die trying to fight for your country. In the poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est” the author uses voice, rhyme scheme, similes, imagery, and diction to express that while fighting for your country is great you truly don’t know the great horror men go through. In the first poem by Rupert Brooke, he uses rhyme scheme. In the poem it says, “If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is forever England. There shall be In that rich earth a richer dust concealed.” In this quote it shows the rhyme scheme and shows that when the speaker dies he wants people to remember that he died fighting for the country he loves. In the second poem by Wilfred Owen, he also uses rhyme scheme. In the poem it says, “If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues.” This shows the rhyme scheme and it helps support how the author feels because he choses to rhyme body parts and how they are being destroyed while fighting for their country. The author decides to use personification in the first poem by saying, “ In hearts at peace, under an English Heaven.” This supports the author's view because he decides to give life to something that is not real like English Heaven. I say this because while heaven may be real there is no such thing as heaven just for the english, but he author wants to include it in the poem to make it sound more peaceful and honorable for the soldiers who die. In the second poem the author decides to use similes by saying things like, “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks” and, “Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge” and, “His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin.” The author used similes to show how he feels

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