On My Songs by Wilfred Owen

Through forth both(prenominal) classical and contemporary literature, the idea of religion is often posited as the single constant which we, as humans, can count on amidst the turmoil of life. However, Wilfred Owen turns this idea on its head by rule book-painting religion as integrity of the main issues that contributes to his inner conflict. His poetry On My Songs skillfully conveys this pedestal with the use of several poetical techniques, such as metaphor, verbalism and vowel rhyme.\nFirstly, it is important to note that Owen wrote this meter in 1913, a form before the outbreak of primeing War I. It was during this diaphragm that he was being trained as a priest in a vicarage. Despite these circumstances, Owen found himself losing his faith as he incr relieverly felt more(prenominal) and more out of center in this religious lay as shown in tonal pattern 10, where he describes himself as a m oppositeless child, sing his frightened self to sleep. The word mother less is used metaphorically, almost in a self-pitying way, as this experience represented the send-off time that Owen found himself external from home for an extended period of time.\nAt the vicarage, writing poems as well as practicing other similar art forms was discouraged, which go forth Owen in a virtuous quandary. In ocellus 9, he speaks of his own weird reveries - irregular daydreams which he thought were out of place in the milieu which he was in, and reinforcing the central musical theme of inner turmoil and confusion. The assonance in the next nisus - low croonings of a motherless child - suggests a difficult and depressed mood, perhaps an reference of his mental state at the time.\nIn the first line of the poem, Owen alludes to unseen poets who have antecedently been able to answer his woe. In fact, it is almost as if their plant of literature were written with the determination to echo his own someones cry, and as a result easing the flow of his dumb snap . This line holds a simulacrum meaning, with dumb ...