How Wilfred Owen Challenges The Romanticised Glamorised...

How Wilfred Owen Challenges The Romanticised Glamorised Picture Of War This essay is to explain and to show how Wilfred Owen challenges the glamorised image surrounding the war. This glamorous image was created by the media in order to get people to join up for the war, as a result of the propaganda people believed that it was honourable to go to war and you would be regarded as a hero. To do this I will need to present evidence, using quotes and commentating on his various writing techniques. To show this I am going to write about two of his poems: Dulce et decorum est and Disabled. Both of these poems are renowned for challenging the propaganda created by the media and proves that it was all lies created to make people sign†¦show more content†¦This stanza is the complete antithesis of all the propaganda. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! This is a dramatic change in pace written in the present tense and by using alliteration, repetition and direct speech Owen sucks you into the panic and pressure of this attack. He saw a man dying Dim through the misty panes and you are immediately put in his position and you are looking through the gas mask just as he did. But by using dim and misty to describe his vision he creates a distance between the dying man and us. I think with this Owen wanted us to feel as though we were there but couldnt do anything to help the dying man. This is not how it is made out to be, it is supposed to be a honourable death if you die in the war but this man drowned like a man in fire or lime. In all my dreams, he is still haunted by the death of the man and feels responsible because he didnt or couldnt help. Its like a nightmare, every time he goes to sleep. plunges at me the man is plunging at him in his dreams, trying to survive but he cant do anything to help him. This stanza is short but effective as it shows us, the readers, how he is still haunted by sights that he saw in the war. It is all written in a personal tone so you feel as though he is talking to just you. He uses you in this stanza frequently and you