can anyone help - irony in WW1 Poetry. these 3 poems?

Question

The Cenotaph - Charlotte Mew
Strange Meeting - Wilfred owen
Does It Matter - Seigfried Sassoon

Answer 1

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The Cenotaph - Charlotte Mew
The speaker’s response to the woman is tinged with both an annoyed IRONY and a recognition that her final words can be recontextualized:Beautiful, Plump woman, (Plump of mind as well as of body) Beautiful is your tolerance Of human idiosyncrasy. When my impatient feet would tap in irritation, When my breath would break out in abuse, When my scornful lips would frame themselves

Strange Meeting - Wilfred owen
Wilfred Owen's "Strange Meeting" utilize the latter route to achieve their depiction of war. Both poems utilize irony to disrupt the duality of enemies in war in order to make complicit friends of enemies: "Strange Meeting" uses truth as the IRONY, while "Break of Day in the Trenches" uses the imagery of a rat to create irony.

Does It Matter - Seigfried Sassoon
In the public mind he remained not only one of the most celebrated poets of the great war but also an abiding emblem of courage and protest against the carnage. He remained a legend you were surprised to find still alive, a fact he was not slow to comment on with his habitual SELF-IRONY.

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