The Horrors of War Depicted in Owens Dulce Et Decorum...

It is clear when a country goes to war, patriotism and support for ones’ country is obvious. After events of nine eleven, there were large amount of support given to soldiers fighting in Iraq. Banners, stickers, rallies were some ways people showed their gratitude. Little do they know, many of the strong men, who are in battle, goes through an episode where they fear death more than anything else. In the writings of William B. Yeats and Wilfred Owens, their war poems depicts an emotional load that they have encountered, to a point where death was no longer a fear but a desire. War is not a pretty sight. On the battle field, what is seen, felt and heard isn’t fully comprehensible unless one experienced it first hand. Owen’s†¦show more content†¦Yeats’s was an airmen of his home village, the Kiltartan Cross. The first four verse put the reader in a nonchalant mood because the verses tells the reader how he felt. Yeats was more neutral when it came to the war. His enemies he fights against he doesn’t hate and the people who he fights for, he doesn’t love. Most soldiers would feel differently. Fighting for your country brings honor and dignity among yourself. Yeats did not feel that way at all. All he knew was somewhere among the clouds, death was lingering. In the midst of the haunting darkness, treacherous sounds and dying soldiers, the fear of death was no longer the issue for Owen and Yeats. The war has taken such an emotional toll, to where death was a motivation to get out. War is painful. Soldiers are put in a lot physical and mental extremities. Owen and Yeats were mentally suffering from all the commotion. In verse 15-17, Owen describes his feelings as if it were a painful dream. The use of diction helps to more clearly define what the he is saying. Words like guttering, choking, and drowning not only show how he is suffering, but a terrible pain that no human being should bear. Yeats f elt the same as Owen. Though they were fighting in two different scenarios, they shared a common outlook. In verse 9-12, the law, his civil duty, nor cheering crowds of supporters was no motive for Yeats to be in war. All Yeats felt was â€Å"a lonely impulse of delight.† Yeats uses the only