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Compare Owen’s use of language in “Dulce et Decorum est” and “Futility”.
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Compare Owen's use of language in "Dulce et Decorum est" and "Futility". Both poems are different approaches of war describing the horrors of it in different ways. One is dealing with the moment of death while the other one is about the philosophical ideas after a death opposed to showing the death. The sun is the central issue in the first line of Futility. It says, "Move him into the sun," which is not said as a shouted command but said very gently. Owen is clinging onto the hope of waking the man up but knows in his mind that the man is dead. He does this because he has just been shocked by the death and can't accept the death and is willing to try any thing to wake the dead man. In the whole of the first verse, Owen hints to us that the dead man used...
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