1. Nothing’s changed and Owen’ poem Dulce et Decorum est both consider the human reaction to conflict. In Nothing’s changed, the poet is faced with the daily discrimination because of the colour of his skin. He shows this by repeating the line ‘nothing’s changed’ and using that as the title. By repeating it, it signals to the reader that he is angry and cannot escape it. Owen is also showing the way human’s are affected, as they are described as, ‘bent double like old beggars under sacks’ and ‘all went lame: all blind’. Firstly the simile shows the reader the physically effects of the conflict as young men have become old people. We associate the word beggar with someone who is homeless and destitute. This makes the reader picture the change of the young soldiers gone off to war as homeless people. The poet is showing us how the war destroyed men, who had everything, into having nothing. Owen here focuses on the physical whilst in Nothing’s changed it was about the emotional side of the human suffering. Again Owen comes back to the physical in his short statements, ‘all lame: all blind’. Like Nothing’s changed he uses repetition here to emphasise the consuming nature of the conflict. Here again though it is physical as they have lost their sight and use of their bodies. Whereas in Nothing’s changed it is their minds which are broken.
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