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Article: Formal subversion in Wilfred Owen's "Hospital Barge." (Issues in English and American Literatures)
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Wilfred Owen is best known for depicting war's carnage, and this reputation is largely based on the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est." Certainly, this is a memorabl poem, remarkable for its graphic description of the agonies of a first World Wa gas victim and widely anthologized no doubt for this very reason: its subject and even more its treatment of that subject seem so decidedly "unpoetic" that the poem serves a double didactic purpose, at once to condemn war and to convince readers (especially young readers of school textbooks) that not all poetry is boring or saccharine.
Such depictions are indeed an important element in Owen's work, but shockingly graphic description ...
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