Extraordingary_Experiences_Do_Create_Good_Prose_and_Poetry

Extraordinary Human experiences do create good poetry and prose. Wilfred own talks about his experience in the war with extreme passion, he expresses his disgust of the unprecedented loss of human life, which wiped out a whole generation of young men. Owen disregards the conventional beliefs of war at the time he was living in, where war poetry was written as “”romantic”, he breaks this barrier by revealing the true nature of war through the experiences her participated in during his time on the western front. In Dulce et Decorum est Owen uses various imagery to create a ghastly picture of war to gain reaction from the audience e to make them disgusted and horrified at the reality of war, these images are utilized by Owen to show the ultimate irony and the moral of the poem; it is not in fact a "sweet and decorous" fate to die for one's country even though writers of his day were portraying it as something heroic and noble. This irony is illustrated in a clever juxtaposition at the end of the poem. The men who enlist are "innocent" , they are "children" who have learned that war is full of "high zest" and this makes them "ardent for some desperate glory". The innocent boys are willing to believe the Lie but they will, of course, learn differently once they experience the war first hand, just as own has changed his opinion through his experiences. Owen incorporates allusion into his visual imagery. The "misty panes and thick green light" in line 13 refer again to the gas warfare employed in the World War. Even more important to Owen's poem, however, is the vivid visual imagery. Every image from this poem starkly contradicts our typical image of a soldier. .While many readers imagine a soldier standing at attention, neatly dressed in uniform, here Owen confronts the reader with soldiers that are "bent double, like old beggars" Wilfred Owen also attacks the old lie and the perceptions of war at home, and shows the indignity and horror of the war. He does this by strongly persuading the reader that war is not romantically heroic, but pointless. The reader's attentiveness does not wander throughout the poems course because of the constant imagery that Owen exhibits. By the end of the poem, the reader will fully understand the irony between the truth of what happens in the trenches and the Lie being told at home. Good poetry is a reaction to something experienced firsthand by the author, Owen has experienced the most agony and pain a man can withstand and eventually succumb to the guns of war, but has ultimately recreated his experiences into poetry form. In Anthem for doomed youth we are again faced with the images of young men being sent of to be “slaughtered like cattle,” here war is not seen as glorious or noble, it is simply a slaughterhouse where the usual rites of passage after death are replaced by wars own, “passing bells” usually wrung when someone dies are replaced by the firing of guns, this has caused own through his experience of war to show the world what war really is. He uses words such as 'hags', 'devil', and 'writhing face'. These words remind us of a bad dream, this is exactly what own wants us the reader to see. It might sound like a nightmare but you will be able to wake up from a nightmare whereas he is talking about life in the trenches and there was no way out for these young men, no way just to wake up, the only way out was your inevitable death. "No mockeries now for them; no prayers, nor bells." In this line Owen is explaining the traditional rights of death, mockeries, prayer, bells and choirs will not be here for the death of these men, instead own believes that the choirs of guns and shells are a more relatable eulogy for the men about to die an inevitable death. In futility Owen expresses his disbelief when a fellow comrade dies not of the war but from simply the bitter cold, his pathetic attempt to revive the soldier by placing him in the sun, “are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides, full nerved, still warm, too hard to stir”, owns disbelief that the man has died, the body still warm keeps there hopes up but nothing can save the soldier. Owen shows is disgust in the pointlessness of human sacrifice and of life itself, own even discusses life in the biblical sense “Was it for this the clay grew tall'” owen is in deep wander about the true nature of god and religion, were men born just to be killed in battle, this experience has truly affected owen and his views on life. “All went lame; All blind; Drunk with fatigue” the effect of this is that it strongly represents just how incredible the hardship the soldiers had to endure without break without sufficient sleep and even though the level of fatigue is so high that they cannot sense their surroundings let alone stand and march, there is still no mercy for these doomed souls they can only continue to push on awaiting their fate. This linking closely with the mood of the poem and in fact many other poems written by Owen especially with “Futility” due to the close relation between the soldiers being helpless. This is how extraordinary human experiences create good poetry.