Poem Comparison Essay

The triplet poems are written by Wilfred Owen are found on war, and reveal the horrors of war. They are sad, and he uses these poems to express his bad feelings and hatred for war. Despite their similarities, they differ in certain ways as well. For example, Anthem for luckless Youth is about how nobody is concerned for the knackered spends and their efforts, Arms and The boy is about how war transforms people into bloodthirsty monsters, and Futility is about a dead pass lying in the fields of France.Structur completelyy, Futility and Anthem for Doomed Youth are similar because they are some(prenominal) sonnets. However, they once again differ in that Futility is a more irregular sonnet, written in 2 verses of seven and seven with a rhyme scheme of ABABCCC DEDEFFF. It is irregular because it has no iambic penta touchst integrity, and overall the meter is very inconsistent. It uses half rhymes such as once and France, or star and stir. Anthem for Doomed Youth is more conventi onal with verses of eight and six, with a rhyme scheme of ABABCDCD EFFEGG. It has iambic Pentameter.Arms and the male child have three verses of four drags with a half rhyme scheme of AABB CCDD EEFF. It has an iambic rhythm.Arms and the boy have a strange title because boys and war should non normally go together. Arms and the Boy use a register of terms to make the boy sound horrible, same a monster. It uses actors line and phrase such as Hunger of Blood, Madmans Flash, and Famishing for Flesh. These three terms show the monstrosity of the soldiers, and criticises their thirst for killing. He shows us his feelings of hatred and despair towards them. There is to a fault a register of predatory weapons, such as teeth, claws, talons, antlers. This portrays him as an animal in two ways, one is for his savageness in being so determined to kill, still also in that, animals use their beam limbs for killing, and so does he (arms to operate guns and to use bayonets).Anthem for Doom ed Youth also has a contradictory title because there is no anthem for the doomed youth, as shown by What passing bells for those who die as cattle? which shows they died without dignity, let alone a funeral or anthem. It describes what should be their funeral, but is not. It shows what they are not getting, but really should begetting. The second stanza shows an ending for them by using word like goodbyes and drawing subdue of blinds. The second line is very clever because it reflects Shakespeares saying of lifes a theatre, and all men and women merely players. A show ends with drawing down of curtains or blinds, and their lives metaphorically end like that.Futility is about a soldier who is dying in the sun. We are told he is a farmer because of the line At home, whispering of fields unsown. It portrays the sun as a mother, because of the caring words employ to describe it such as gently. It portrays the sun as a kind figure that woke up the soldier on a regular basis. On this o ccasion, it cannot. The sunbeams toil to keep him awake but that still does not work. This is because nature (the sun) cannot interfere with manmade affairs (war). There is snow present, which is a figure of death because it is cold and harsh, glacial of the warm and gentle sun. He is appalled how our limbs so dear achieved can be used as tools as destruction.