Comparison of Anthem for Doomed Youth and An Irish Airman Foresees His

Comparison of Anthem for Doomed Youth and An Irish Airman Foresees His DeathWilliam Butler Yeats has written many pieces of literary productions, mainly rough Ireland as that is his passion and cause of writing. Howeverhis poem An Irish Airman Foresees His Death is not solely aboutIreland and even though it includes that theme it is sort of acriticism of apathetic people who have no reason for going to war.The form of Yeats poem is very structured and regular. The rhymescheme is ABAB the in all way through the poem and has an unstressed,stressed beat every time. The poem is made up of one sixteen-linedstanza and has a straight forward structure. Yeats has used thisdata formatting for emphasis to get his point across. He has made the poemusing paired lines which balance with one another neutralising anyfeeling that there may have been. Yeats has in any case made the layout ofthe poem very simple and uncomplicated to make Robert Gregorys reasonfor going to war stand out which is a lso simple and uncomplicated-Hejust wants to fly a plane.Wilfred Owens poem was influenced by another war poet SiegfriedSassoon. Their conversations about the horrors of war togetherprovided the framework to many of the poems that Owen wrote. As asoldier at war, Owen was affected by the traumatising horrors of thetrenches that he saw while he was out there. He was so badly affectedthat he was diagnosed with shell shock and sent to hospital inEdinburgh. These horrific scenes caused Owen to write such gruesomeyet realistic compositions. Like Yeats poem, Anthem for doomed spring chicken is also a criticism only this time it is a criticism of how theyoung soldiers who die at war do not get the scholarship or heroicfuneral that they so... ... a more realistic tone. Like Yeats, Owen uses rhyme,rhythm and imagery only he makes his more varied, frequent andcomplexed. To do this, Owen has used an miscellanea of literarydevices such as metaphors, similes, personification, onomatopoeia anda lliteration. This helps Owen to elaborate his poem in more serious,gruesome detail which he often does, even in other literature and agood example of this would be another poem called Dulce etdocormest. He has seen the horror and futility of war first hand andthis is reflected through his use of emotive language. The two poemsare diverse to one another as Owen uses numerous amounts of imageryand has a lack of structure which results in an abundance of emotionwhere as Yeats is the assoil opposite and comprehends constantstructure and image deficiency which consequently leads to a lack ofemotion.