Consider changes Owen made in Anthem For Doomed Youth....

Consider changes Owen made in Anthem For Doomed Youth. How effective do you find them in presenting the Pity of War? In this essay I intend to analysis how effective the redrafts of the poem Anthem For Doomed Youth by comparing the first and final drafts. I will go about this task by comparing and contrasting the parts of the poem, which have been change to the ones, which appeared in the final draft. The first change that one is confronted with is the change of the title. Owen begins with the word dead, which is changed to doomed. The reason for changing this is because it makes the readers first impressions very deep. The word doomed hits closer to home than the word dead as doomed creates image sin the readers†¦show more content†¦The word fast seems to not be as exploitive enough to help convey the message Owen is attempting to create. This again helps emphasise the Pity of War. In line two the reference to guns is changed from our to the this creates a sense of opposition within the poem again linking in with what the nature of war and creating a sense of them and us this is a very small change but it suggests to the reader that there is no end due to the fact that if the enemy does not stop their fighting then they cannot either. The overall impact of the line of the guns makes the whole connotation seem much more sinister and threatening. In the third line there is a significant change of the phrases Owen uses. It is clear that in the first draft Owen uses personification to an extent that the reader could say he is trying to hard. He then changes technique to one of alliteration and creates a line of riffles rapid fire which is much harder hitting again keeping in the line with the way that Owen is conveying the Pity of War but he also keeps in trend with the two structures of the poem. The line riffles rapid fire has a sense of speed to it, which is what the first stanza is all about. Stuttering is also a significant word, as the action to stutter is to do something again and again just like the gunfire that the soldiers would be subject to. In line four the main change is the usage of the word patter. This,Show MoreRelatedAnthem For Doomed Youth And Dulce Et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen1378 Words   |  6 PagesWilfred Owen is today recognised as the greatest poet of the first World War, his poetry at the time was considered to be controversial as it revealed the truths behind trench warfare and contradicted popular attitudes at the time. The works of Wilfred Owen, and specifically, the poems of ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ are both successful in powerfully giving a voice to the soldiers of war and conveying the dark and inextricable truth behind war provoking the reader to considerRead MoreThe Tradition Of War Poetry Essay2221 Words   |  9 PagesPoetry By comparing and contrasting a selection of war poems consider the ways in which attitudes to war have been explored and expressed. When considering poetry written post 1900 concentrate on a selection of poems written by Wilfred Owen. Humans have turned to poetry in many different instances as a way of expressing them selves, using the best combination of words, in the best order to express exactly how they are feeling at that moment. Poetry is one of the mostRead More Different Attitudes of the First World War as Expressed in Poems by Various Artists2568 Words   |  11 Pagescountry and show the women their braveness, they thought they would come back heroes, however they did not know what happened beyond the cheerful and brave faces seen in the news papers and the blissful time the soldiers had in their letters home. This made many more men go to war. Things gradually changed, death, disease, mud, it had suddenly hit that to fight for your country was not such an honour. Soldiers firstly began to write poetry because poetry was the most important mode of expression forRead MoreThe Portrayal of War in Lord Byron’s The Destruction of Sennacherib, Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est and Tennyson’s The Charge of The Light Brigad1761 Words   |  8 Pagesthe subject of different views of war. ‘The Destruction of Sennacherib’ and ‘The Charge of the Light brigade’ were written pre 1914 whereas ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est was written post 1914’. Dulce et decorum est, was written by Wilfred Owen, and is meant to portray the harshness of the first world war. This was mainly to combat writers such as Jesse Pope, who portrayed the war as â€Å"a game†. Lord Byron’s the destruction of Sennacherib, was written pre 1914, and he used secondary