The language used by Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen, for The Soldier and Dulce Et Decorum Est is vastly different from each other, even though both poems were about war. ... The amount and type of figurative language used in The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, is also different from what is used by Wilfred Owen in Dulce Et Decorum Est. ... While, Wilfred Owen, in Dulce Et Decorum Est, uses many metaphors, such as "thick green light" and "under a green sea, I saw him drowning." ... While Wilfred Owen, uses stark and horrific images, to give the reader the image that war is horrible and vile, with t...

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It is the physical trauma that these men suffered during the war and the psychological trauma they suffered on their return back that Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon became renowned to write about; their poems are a stark contrast to that of Pope's "who's for the Game?" ... Perhaps the most famous of these poems is that of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est", a poem based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". ... In "Disabled", Owen begins by describing the victim's present life. ... Despite this, and in contrast to "Dulce et Decorum est" wh...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate