... last thing these patients need is a sympathetic audience?. This horrible idea that shell shocked men in the hospital are seen by the authorities as failures and degenerates, links in with Wilfred Owen's poem Dulce et Decorum Est. This poem creates the imagery of the young fighting men being reduced and made old before their time. The first line ofDulce et Decorum Est ... sweet and fitting to die for their country. The sheer physical pressure of fighting in the trenches weakens them in this poem, and Wilfred Owen shocks and moves us by the way he puts this across to us. Owen describes ev...

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... why when you read his poems there is a strong air of patriotism, unlike Siegfried Sassoon who focuses more on protesting about the war. Wilfred Owen goes on to portray the emotional side of the war where some people become angry about it whereas Isaac Rosenberg goes on the search for ... As time went on, certain poets started to write more compassionately and more emotionally towards the war. Such poets were Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen. "Exposure" by Owen is a great poem for showing exactly how the soldiers reacted to being in the trenches and how a lot of the time was spent ... des...

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... many cases prevented them from interfering in what was, after all, private mail. The failure of censorship in some cases led to difficult circumstances, for example, Wilfred Owen wrote a piece on the conditions in the trenches and his feelings about the matter, which was published, and raised a public outcry, as an officer, ... gentleman, and receiver of both the MM and MC, it would have been impossible to accuse him of cowardice. Despite this, Owen later admitted he had expected to be "shot by firing squad" instead, they pronounced him as mad, and sent him to Craiglockart, Scotland, whe...

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