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This 5 page paper explicates three of Owen's World War I poems. The thesis of this paper is that Owen is able to evoke emotions through the use of imagery. No additional sources cited.
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sometimes works are equally effective when they are more subtle. Some poems and works of literature on the same subject matter as the more hard hitting fare, can be quite
provocative. Wilfred Owen was such a writer, able to produce works that create powerful emotion even years after the war had come to an end and he does this primarily
with the technique of imagery. In Arms and the Boy, Owen begins as follows: "Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade. How cold steel is, and keen with hunger
of blood" (Owen PG). Here, the author uses imagery to provoke the feeling of sympathy. One imagines the cold blade dripping with warm blood. Thus, from the outset one is
there, visualizing the blade that has already killed or maimed. Then, the author continues: "Blue with all malice, like a madmans flash" (PG). In this next line he uses the
color blue to represent the vindictiveness that the knife may experience. Here, with personification as the technique used by Owen, the reader is compelled to also hate the knife as
well as to hate the person using it. Of course, no one yet knows who the person is. However, the term malice certainly drums up feelings of contempt. The poem
continues as follows: "And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend him to stroke these blind, blunt bullet-leads, Which long to nuzzle in the hearts of lads,Or give him cartridges
whose fine zinc teeth Are sharp with sharpness of grief and death" (Owen PG). Again, the author takes an inanimate object and drums up hate in the minds and
hearts of the reader. The final lines of the poem are: "For his teeth seem for laughing round an apple.There lurk no claws behind his fingers supple;And God will
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