1. Wilfred Owen and The Modernism
True to the modernist endorsement of innovative methods of writing, Owen develops an amazing technical skill with the use of assonance and para-rhyme (Purkis 118), partly inverting the dominant tradition of poetic diction. ... There is the feeling that something will happen at any moment, this is underlined by Owen's use of ellipsis dots at the end of every sentence in Stanza one, which allude to a sense of anticipation and of something ready to come to a head at any moment. ...
- Word Count: 2437
- Approx Pages: 10
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School