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##lce Et Decorum Est And Anthem For Doomed Youth By Wilfred Owen

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Good Morning students and teachers today I will be talking about 2 of Wilfred owens poems that help to convey the experiences of war. The two poems that I will be exploring are “Dulce Et Decorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. These 2 poems like most of Wilfred Owens poems, show that war in essence is horrific and unnecessary - a waste of human life.
To understand and discuss the poetry of Wilfred Owen it is necessary to know a little about him and his motivation for his poetry. Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th of March 1893 and died on 4 November 1918. He is best known for his amazing war poetry and is seen as one of the most powerful poets of his genre, able to detail the realism and horror that was the First World War. Owens first experience of the war was when he was in hospital treating the wounded soldiers. When the war broke out, Owen was teaching in France and so he wanted to join the French army, but instead joined the British army in 1915.
Wilfred Owen was invalided out of the army in 1916 as he suffered from shellshock. Unluckily Owen was killed during the last month of the battle, November 1918. His parents received a telegram on the day when the war finished 1918.
The first Owen poem I would like to discuss is “Dulce Et Decorum Est” This poem expresses the poets personal experiences of the war. The title “Dulce Et Decorum Est” in Latin means “it is sweet and right”. Owen describes the condition that the men were in and states “all went lame; all blind;

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