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 write m all pieces of literature, mainlyabout Ireland as that is his passion and cause of writing. Howeverhis poem An Irish Airman Foresees His Death is not solely aboutIreland and until now though it includes that theme it is rather acriticism of apathetic people who have no reason for going to fight.The form of Yeats poem is very integrated and regular. The rhymescheme is ABAB the whole way done the poem and has an unstressed,stressed beat every time. The poem is made up of one sixteen-linedstanza and has a true(p) forward structure. Yeats has used thisformat 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 also made the layout ofthe poem very simple and uncomplicated to make Robert Gregorys reasonfor going to war stand out which is also simple and uncomplicate d-Hejust wants to fly a plane.Wilfred Owens poem was influenced by another war poet SiegfriedSassoon. Their conversations about the horrors of war unneuroticprovided 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. the like Yeats poem, Anthem for doomedyouth is also a criticism only this time it is a criticism of how theyoung soldiers who die at war do not get the recognition or heroicfuneral that they so... ... a more realistic tone. Like Yeats, Owen uses rhyme,rhythm and imagery only he makes his more varied, ghost andcomplexed. To do this, Owen has used an assortment of literarydevices such as metaphors, similes, personification, onomatopoeia andalliteration. This helps Owen to el aborate his poem in more serious,gruesome detail which he often does, stock-still 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 complete opposite and comprehends constantstructure and image deficiency which consequently leads to a lack ofemotion.