Dulce et Decorum est
Who wrote the poem?What is the poem about?
Who is the intended audience?How do we know? Give a quote
How is the writer manipulating the audience?
Manipulate: control, sway, have power over, direct
What is the major theme (idea/ message) in this poem?
What are the most important words in the poem? What connotations do these words have?
Are there any hints that the speaker or narrator does not really mean everything that they say? Where, why, how?Give quotes
If the narrator was speaking aloud, what would the tone of his voice be? Why would this be his tone of voice?
What feelings are generated by the images (figurative techniques) of the poem?
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FIND FIVE LANGUAGE FEATURES THAT HELP US TO UNDERSTAND THE AUTHORS FEELINGS AND THE THEME
EXAMPLE ANSWER:
L/F: Simile
Quote: “senseless and limp like slaughtered sheep”
How does it influence the way you read of the poem?
It forces us to imagine the soldiers as baby sheep that are being brutally killed.
What is the author’s purpose? Why would he use this feature in particular?
The author uses simile to compare the soldiers’ death to slaughtered sheep. By doing this Wilfred Owen allows the us to imagine the soldiers were killed like animals and that there deaths were like those in a slaughterhouse, quick but bloody.He did this to illustrate that the soldiers deaths were not glorious or beautiful as those back home were led to believe.
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