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Wilfred Owen - Coggle Diagram
Wilfred Owen
"Dulce et Decorum"
central part
poison gas> nightmare
first stanza
horror of war
wagon carrying dead or dying bodies
Models
Orace
Tirteo
aggressive realism
destroy the Romantic myth of a glorious man
vivid imagines
emerges a lot of cruel imagines
you
Jessica Pooe
she made propaganda for war
1893-1918
Educated in Liverpool
returned to England
teacher in Bourdeaux
French fever in Somme
Veterans
He rejects the idea that war means becoming an hero
Semptimus Smith
Lower middle class
Killed one week before the armistice was signed
apocalyptic desolation
critic to war
sensuous language, use of compound words, stressing wounds and decaying flesh
horror of war
harsher sounds than Brooke
PRO PATRIA MORI
The poet is a soldier
experience of war totally rejected
