... use of these devices. This poem is very effective because of its use of the mechanical and emotional parts of poetry. Owen's use of precise diction emphasizes his point, showing that war is a horrible and devastating event. Through figurative language, a poem can give the reader the exact feeling the author ... poem expresses strong meaning and persuasive argument of the dark side of war and is an excellent example of powerful writing. The author's use of excellent diction helps to clearly define what the author is saying. (Fulwiler and Hayakawa 163) Powerful verbs like "guttering", "cho...

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... that they are out of harm's way. Owen also uses the dialect of the soldiers. Instead of a poet who knows nothing of WWI writing in flowing colorful diction, "The Letter" is obviously written by a man who experienced the war, and knows the truth about it. The words Owen use proves this fact. "The ... leaving widows and children at home. Owen uses this to spread his resentment for WWI to others. In "Anthem for Doomed Youth" Owen uses specific diction to express his feeling about the unnecessary death of many young men during the war. The poem is about the remembrance and funerals of the ...

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... different from everyday language. Modern poetry contains language that is closer to the idioms of everyday speech and to a more diverse range of subject matter. Instead of a single unified poetic diction, different styles coexist more frequently. This is first noticeable in Hopkins and Hardy, and continues through Eliot and Auden to Larkin and more recently to Tony Harrison, Simon Armitage, and ... disfigured soldiers who had to live with the horrors long after the war had finished. The language of Sassoon's poetry is deliberately anti-Romantic in its rejection of conventional poetic di...

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... hand takes the viewpoint of a young man leaving his woman in the hopes of becoming a hero, ignorant to what awaits him. Both authors represent their arguments well. Their choice of diction, their particular setting pertaining to the method of warfare, and their poetic device usage allow them to create the desired effect. Owen's attitude is very sarcastic towards the idea of ... be the man, a throw back to an error of chauvinism. He is very eager and willing to be a hero. His ignorance is breed from his lack of wartime experience. The diction used is one of a haughty man, inexperienced, ...

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... as vast as the sky or something as heavy as gravity. He uses this to explain how important the soldiers really are. Another literary device used in this excerpt is diction. O"Brian uses the phrase, "they carried" many times because it represents the soldiers" pain. Not only did they carry water bottles and stationary, they carried dysentery and malaria also. It ... explains the pain and suffering they went through, and what they had to do to sustain life. Mood, irony, figurative language, and diction were all used as literary devices in these two writings. These passages demonstrate wha...

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... of a human conflict with nature. Since it is the extreme physicals conditions in the trenches that really but pressure on the men, the weather must also be their enemy. The diction used is mostly descriptive since Owen is trying to portray a realistic picture of what life was like. "Exposure" also gives the impression that Owen is not on protest about the ... story: - "The wheels lurched over sprawled dead" The rhythm in this poem is broken and seems to stop without warning, this is due to the use of full stops. The diction is very graphic and the lexical set used is that of anguish and...

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... -war viewpoint is the same as that expressed in the poem Dulce et Decorum Est, written by Wilfred Owen, a soldier who fought in World War One. His excellent use of diction, figurative language, punctuation, and imagery convinces the reader that war is actually the disastrous series of tragic events he, as a soldier, had to go through. The poem's main theme, the ... a metaphor for the soldiers themselves, is very effective in giving rise to a sense of sympathy from the reader towards the soldiers. Another device used by Owen is a brilliant use of diction, as in the simile "like a devil's ...

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... clearly not satisfied with the heavenly setting and become obsessed with hunting and getting meat, even though they have food supply from all the fruit trees. William Golding uses great diction to show the pleasure the boys get from hunting, describing their animalistic urges and presenting the boys loss of innocence, it says "the sow staggered her way ahead of ... ...

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... which is portrayed in the second and third stanza. "If in some smothering dreams you too could pace behind the wagon that we flung him in." Continuing with the stirring diction, the words seem almost like an attack. Initially, the speaker seems merely to be recounting the scene, and doing so with compelling words that lend easily to gruesome imagery. Now ... ...

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... as a political poem. For a public poem you have to be able to become almost impersonal, to generalize, and to find some kind of objective distance from the self. When the diction of the modern poem - the language and the syntax - is used for large generalizations it usually sounds overblown and uncomfortable. Often the poetry only works when there is an assumed ... ...

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... line he goes on to say that the men are knock-kneed and compares their coughs to those of hags. Again the undesirable, slightly unpleasant note is illustrated through the diction. The soldiers sound unwell, probably due to their harrowing lives in the trenches, which makes them dirty, sodden and more prone to illness. In the third line the poet describes ... ...

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... lines. In Latin, the phrase "Dulce et decorum est pro partria mori" means: "It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country." Owen calls this a lie by using good diction, vivid comparisons, and graphic images to have the reader feel disgusted at what war is capable of and sympathetic of those who suffered during and after it. This poem is ... ...

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... modernist endorsement of innovative methods of writing, Owen develops an amazing technical skill with the use of assonance and para-rhyme (Purkis 118), partly inverting the dominant tradition of poetic diction. This is seen in the lines: Our brains knive us Wearied the night is silent Low our memory of the salient Worried by silence nervous . ( lines1-4) The effect of the ... ...

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... 's ideal world. Where Golding found infinite beauty, Conrad can not find joy even in the sunshine. Nature is working against man, and even the sunshine is dark. Conrad uses his diction to transform the lush jungles of the Congo into a dark place. Conrad uses similar method to transfigure gloom over the civilized world as well. He describes his view of the ... ...

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