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Poetry is an effective medium for the expression of issues, ideas, and the messages. This is to be demonstrated by a comparison of the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and the song "One" by Metallica both being about war and its long-term effects both physical and mental. The various techniques used in these song and poems are to be discussed and analysed. Some techniques used were similes, metaphors, symbolism, onomatopea and personification.

Personification is a huge contributinfg factor to both the poem and song respectively. Personification is the basis, basically, of the song "One". The song describes the feeling, the inner personal feeling of a soldier at war. The song describes the pains of being at war by stating that the landmine had "taken my soul", basically his reason for life. This portrays the landmine, an inanimate, man-made object, was able to through its detonation, to remove this soldiers figurative soul. A landmine is incapable of physically reaching deep inside, in a ...

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