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Analysing ways in which Owen and Sassoon convey the horrors of war in their poems.
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Laura Townsend 11G English coursework assignment-War Poetry Analysing ways in which Owen ans Sassoon convey the horrors of war in their poems. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" Wilfred Owen "Attack"- Siegfried Sassoon Both poems describe the horrors and tragedy that became the norm to so many solders or the First World War. What life was like in the trenches, what it was like to see so many suffering and dying people, and what it was like to know you are going to die and never see your family again, could not be shown or conveyed as well in any other way then to read some of the poems written by those who were there, and experienced everything first hand. From the way Owen has written "Dulce Et Decorum Est" we can only begin to understand these things. The poem starts by describing the horrific way the solders were living, and the conditions they had...
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