How Wilfred Owen Challenges The Romanticised & Glamorised Picture Of Wa

How Wilfred Owen Challenges The Romanticised & Glamorised Picture Of WarThis rise is to explain and to show how Wilfred Owen challenges theglamorised image surrounding the war. This glamourous image was createdby the media in order to get people to join up for the war, as aresult of the propaganda people believed that it was ho no.rable to goto war and you would be regarded as a hero. To do this I will need to turn in evidence, using quotes and commentating on his various writingtechniques. To show this I am going to write about two of his poemsDulce et decorum est and disabled. Both of these poems argon renownedfor challenging the propaganda created by the media and proves that itwas all lies created to make people bell ringer up for war and its not inany way honourable, heroic, glamorous or romantic to die in the war.These poems cod credibility because Owen has prototypal hand experience inthe war as he served in WW1. He uses this to his advantage and writestruthfully and ope nly to crush any rest propaganda that may stillsay that it is sweet and fitting to die for your country.Dulce et decorum est is a poem that follows a nameless man through aday during WW1 and describes some of the things that he saw.He writes that they look like obsolescent beggars. This is an stiffsimile because when you think of old beggars you think of dirty,scruffy, weak ill people, which is a cope contradictory to theimage of a soldier that the media created using propaganda. They werecoughing like old hags. This is a simile. hags are unhealthy andunfit and this is not what soldiers are evaluate to be like. All wentlame, all blind/Drunk with fatigue. This is written in the foregonetense and it is ono... ... same but it is put in different courseof writing. At the end in Dulce he directly addresses the reader,angrily and definite. Disabled has the same depicted object but instead oftelling you what you should and shouldnt do it makes you think. Themessage is there but in a different way.The characters in to each one poem are completely different. Dulcescharacter is written about in first person narrative and the man whodies is anonymous, which I think symbolises how you dont have to knowsome one to be permanently affected by their death. It shows thatdeath feces strike anyone. The man died by accident. Disabled thoughgave us a history of the character, so we knew a little go about hispersonality and what he used to be like before the war. I think thisshows us how much one person can be changed and how his life has beenruined just because he couldnt say no.