Compare and contrast how Wilfred Owen and Isobel...

Compare and contrast how Wilfred Owen and Isobel Thrilling portray the horror, suffering and inevitable disillusionment of war in their respective poems. The two poets that I am going to compare and contrast in this essay both write from a different perspective of the war. They are writing about different poems, Owen writes about the 1st world war and Thrilling the 2nd. Both poets are in a different setting when they write these poems, Thrilling is back at home whereas Owen is in the middle of the action, he is in the battlefield. This makes his poems more vivid and realistic. Owen was an adult at this stage and writes it from a soldiers point of view, however Thrilling writes from a childs point of view. The poems that I†¦show more content†¦The soldiers are described by Owen as hard working and faithful as they limped, blood shod. The war is also stressed by the use of the hyperbole. Many metaphors are used in the poem for example rest is used to signify the dead soldiers. The soldiers are portrayed as being dead and are so tired that they are almost like they are drunk, stumbling with fatigue. In the next verse highlighting the immediacy of the action speeds up the pace. GAS, GAS quick boys! The word boys in this sentence emphasises how young and unprotected the soldiers were. It also shows that they are blind to what is happening, they are inexperienced and therefore suffer. The word ecstasy is then used to highlight the chaos and tempo. It is a contrast to the previous verse when they were trudging on the same routine. The army is portrayed as smart and heroic but they are told to us but Owen as clumsy. The simile like floundering in fire is used to highlight that they were not in control of what was happening, they were delirious. The pace is then slowed down as one of the soldiers dies. He is suffocating and this shows us he is totally helpless. We are at this point looking through the soldiers eyes and this emphasises that we are helpless too. The slowing down is as if he is drowning. The gas is suffocating the soldier and it is if he is drowning under the sea because it as described using the metaphor the green sea . The next verse