This document compares and contrasts the poems "Manhunt" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" in terms of their plots, messages, contexts, languages, and structures. Both poems depict the horrors of war and aim to show that war is not as glorious as propaganda claims. However, they differ in their specific contexts - "Manhunt" describes a wife's efforts to help her husband recover from mental and physical trauma after modern war, while "Dulce et Decorum Est" directly criticizes pro-war propaganda from World War I through vivid imagery of a gas attack. Overall, the document analyzes similarities and differences between the two poems in conveying their anti-war messages.
This document compares and contrasts the poems "Manhunt" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" in terms of their plots, messages, contexts, languages, and structures. Both poems depict the horrors of war and aim to show that war is not as glorious as propaganda claims. However, they differ in their specific contexts - "Manhunt" describes a wife's efforts to help her husband recover from mental and physical trauma after modern war, while "Dulce et Decorum Est" directly criticizes pro-war propaganda from World War I through vivid imagery of a gas attack. Overall, the document analyzes similarities and differences between the two poems in conveying their anti-war messages.
This document compares and contrasts the poems "Manhunt" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" in terms of their plots, messages, contexts, languages, and structures. Both poems depict the horrors of war and aim to show that war is not as glorious as propaganda claims. However, they differ in their specific contexts - "Manhunt" describes a wife's efforts to help her husband recover from mental and physical trauma after modern war, while "Dulce et Decorum Est" directly criticizes pro-war propaganda from World War I through vivid imagery of a gas attack. Overall, the document analyzes similarities and differences between the two poems in conveying their anti-war messages.
This document compares and contrasts the poems "Manhunt" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" in terms of their plots, messages, contexts, languages, and structures. Both poems depict the horrors of war and aim to show that war is not as glorious as propaganda claims. However, they differ in their specific contexts - "Manhunt" describes a wife's efforts to help her husband recover from mental and physical trauma after modern war, while "Dulce et Decorum Est" directly criticizes pro-war propaganda from World War I through vivid imagery of a gas attack. Overall, the document analyzes similarities and differences between the two poems in conveying their anti-war messages.
Similarities Differences Similarities Differences Similarities Differences • Both fought in the war MH - A wife trying to re-build • War isn’t as glorious D - Anti-propoganda - Trying to • Both wars D - 1917 - Wilfred Owens • Both want to show how her relationship with her and beautiful as the persuade young soldiers no to • War has a effect D - WW1 - Gas horrific war is husband, Eddie, after he has propaganda states join the army as it wastes their on their own life returned from war - he has • Effects that is has on youth. • Both poets fought MH - Modern War - suffered both physical and the solders - shell or knew someone Bosnian mental effects shock - PTSD MH - Recovery takes a long time who fought in the MH - Eddie and his wife, • Both have a to recover from both the mental war Laura, are tying to re-build, D - Gas attack; horror of war negative attitude and physical effects of war - it their relationship and how awful it is, wants to towards propaganda also has an effect on his wife and show the true reality of war - their relationship D - Directed towards the which isn’t advertised. Government - also Jessie people as she glorified war, and he refers to this as “lies”
Language Structure Tone
Similarities Differences Similarities Differences Similarities Differences • Both poems make use of D - similia used 6 times to • Both use repetition MH - The order of events is in • Both have a D - Continuous metaphor changing pace and emphasises the horrific sighted to reinforce the chronological order to show how negative ton about of the “old lie” - that is the structure throughout the and injuries they experienced message of how long recovery takes and the wife war propaganda - possibly a poem. horrific war is is working her way around his message to Jessie Pope MH - Repetition of phrases • Both irregular body. who often glorified war. emphasises the message that MH - The shape could resemble recovery takes a long time and the rungs of a ladder or the ribs is slow and painstaking she is climbing MH - The title is pin as literally it means that a man is being D - Very little enjambment - no captured - this refers to the freedom within the war speakers search for her wife D - Wrote in iambic pentameter - metaphorically. 10 syllables
MH - Personal pronouns - “I” D - The title is actually very ironic
D - Collective pronouns - “we” as it was taken from ‘Ode 3.2’, which is a poem. The irony here is that an Ode is often wrote