Comparison of ‘Vergissmeinnicht’ and ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’

Comparison of Vergissmeinnicht and Dulce et Decorum Est
Thomas Roddy


Poetry often comes from feelings of unshakable emotions which can be seen over

centuries of time with Shakespeares frustration of fuck in his sonnets, to John Donne

expressing his relationship with religion. The First World contendfare understandably

brought a time period of strong emotion, due to the futility, and produced some of

the massive poets, such as Wilfred Owen. On the other hand, World fight Two was

underway and the newspapers were asking Where are the war poets? and so the

sames of Keith Douglas were titled as soldier poets. Therefore, Owens Dulce et

Decorum Est[1] and Douglas Vergissmeinnicht[2] seems like an appropriate

comparison of these two periods.


Poetry did develop and change afterward World War One as the 1930s brought a

stress-free period where there was almost a silliness about poetry, with a lack of

concern with social decay and more of an pamper in popular culture. One example of

this was W.H. Auden, who astonished readers with the free comic tone and

domesticity of his poems[3].



Despite this advancement in poetry, when war broke out

in 1939, there was understandably going to be an influence from poets of the First

World War as this generation had magnanimous up reading their poetry and were

experiencing the same thing.


In both(prenominal) poems the reader can see the consumption of a narrative, with Douglas reminiscing of

the daytime he came across the dead German and the photo of Steffi[4], and the description

of a gas attack seen in Owens poem. The similarity in the two poets styles is seen in

the use of the narrative, however, the way in which they actually calculate them is

very different. Owens description of the gas attack in the second stanza is very

powerful and quick in pace with the use of exclamation marks and capital letters

Gas! hired gun![5] this shows the reader the desperation of survival and the fear of death...If you want to make grow a full essay, order it on our website: Orderessay



If you want to get a full essay, wisit our page: write my essay .