Comparing Dulce Et Decorum Est And Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
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Poems are notorious for creating forthrightly beautiful images or showing beauty in daunting images by using diverse techniques. Sound devices, comparisons and effective diction are notable techniques incorporated in poems that form an image. Dulce et Decorum Est is a war poem written by Wilfred Owen and Composed Upon Westminster Bridge is a serene poem drafted by William Wordsworth, yet both make use of the aforementioned techniques to depict a visual aspect of the poem. This artistry can also be found in An African Thunderstorm, composed by David Rubadiri, which is based on African weather, showing that these techniques can be found in any type of poem but have the same effect of creating an image.
Comparisons are frequently found in poems as they give the…show more content… These comparisons normally consist of similes, personification and metaphors. In An African Thunderstorm, the image of the storm is described to be "like a plague of locusts //whirling // tossing up things on its tail//like a madman chasing nothing" (line 5-8). This direct comparison between the storm and locusts appeals to the sense of sight as locusts are physical beings, which gives a visual image of the destruction a plague of locusts, would create. 'A madman' has lunatic behaviour, which further emphasises the unpredictability, therefore effectively illustrating the destructive storm as a mental comparison can be made due to the simile. The soldiers in Dulce et Decorum Est are "like old beggars" (line 1), which exaggerates their conditions of being hungry, poor, dirty and homeless. The soldiers were often filthy due to living in trenches and were considered homeless because their bunkers were destroyed by the bombs making the comparison even more