As a poet, Wilfred Owens wants to show the effects of war from the point of view of a soldier during a war. Owens uses his own experience as a fighter to capture the reader's attention and get his message across. He often uses graphic images and words to describe his thoughts on war, the poems, "Dulce et Decorum est" and "Anthem for doomed." Youth” blatantly speak about the effects of war on soldiers, their loved ones, and those who make an ultimate sacrifice in making a statement about the effectiveness of war. In both poems he shows and discusses death in. war and its far-reaching effects and Decorum est', the point of death is shown in a real light, Owens uses powerful imagery to connect us to these soldiers and their plight of survival during the First. World War. I think the sentence that shows this aspect to the reader is: "He plunges towards me, dripping, choking, drowning"(16) Owens paints the graphic scene of a soldier dying during a gas raid. Owens deliberately makes the scene graphic in order to grab the reader's attention and keep them reading. In “Anthem for Doomed Youth,” Owens never mentions the word war or the name of a particular country; he does this so that each war can be applicable to the poem. Owens also does this so that the topic of all wars being horrible comes into play. He personally feels that we as humans have done nothing to change the fate of dying soldiers and he explains this. “No more mockery for them from now on, no more prayers or bells; / Nor any voice of mourning except the choirs, – / The shrill and mad choirs of the moaning shells. (5-7) In this line, Owens explains that these boys/men do not have a proper ceremony for their death. Shells from bombs and guns replace the...... middle of paper...... obviously states that war is a waste of human lives and energy. In the thick of a war, Owens wants the reader to know that these young men are giving their lives, for nothing that deserves death. He showed through these two poems that war is sinister and useless. Even though Owens believed war was not worth the ultimate sacrifice of death, he still fought in World War I. He did it because so many men his age were driven to fight in the war. Owens finally died in the war a week before the war ended, he ended up living the old lie "Dulce et decorum est /Pro patria mori" (27-28). Works Cited Gioia, Dana and XJ Kennedy, eds. Literature An introduction to fiction, poetry, and writing. Boston: Pearson, 2013. Print. Owens, Wilfred. “Hymn for condemned youth.” Gioia and Kennedy 1115-1116Owens, Wilfred. “Dulce et Decorum est.” Gioia and Kennedy 709-710