owens poetry uses various poetic techniques and focus on various parts of the war, however, his writing was 4 one specific purpose, repudiating war and this is manifested in a number of ways. the extract shows this as he is telling the warmongers to witness such a death on the battlefield for themselves before daring to continue propagating the lie. The next war shows how owens poetry looks beyond the war and how their is hope for the future. anthem for doomed youth contrasts the funeral rites 4 a civilian in comparison to a soldier who dies on a battlefield. Dulce Et Decorum Est is a polemic against warmongers and their use of horaces martial and patriotic maxim D.E.D.E. Essentially the ideas conveyed are unique in their own way however all focus on repudiating war and how futile the war is