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Compare and Contrast: "Dead Man's Dump" by Rosenberg and "dulce et Decorum est"
by Owen


In the poems "Dead Man's Dump" by Isaac Rosenberg and "Dulce et Decorum
est" by Wilfred Owen the main concern of these poets is to relay the theme of
death. They want to let the reader feel the action, to see it with there own
eyes. Both stories portray realistic imagery in many ways. The conflict that
the dying soldier goes through in Rosenberg's poem and the struggle that the
soldier has lunging for his mask in Owen's poem shows death as imagery
In "Dead Man's Dump," you see the wheels of a truck crushing bones
already perished. "The wheels lurched over the sprawling dead," they are
driving over a battle field to pick up the survivors. The drivers of the truck
are playing the role of God, by coming and saving the soldier's from death.
Another reference to God in the same poem is when Rosenberg refers to the
"limbers," wheels of a cannon being pulled, carrying the dead as "Stuck out......

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