Dulce Et Decorum Est

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For example, Owen conveys “ He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning” (line 16). This constructs an extremely horrific image in the reader’s mind that helps the reader better understand the horribleness of war by displaying a tragic event Owen experinced. Another representation of this is when the poet states “Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” (lines 22 & 23). This additionally recreates the horrors Owen went through as a soldier in their mind. Furthermore, the horrific imagery present in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen assists the poet in educating the readers that war should not be

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Wilfred Owen’s poems, The Sentry and Dulce et Decorum Est, similarly depict a bitter criticism of war-related death. Owen uses graphic visual imagery to achieve a lamenting reaction from the audience with references to ‘wretches’ who ‘bled and spewed’. Owen depersonalises the enemy to avoid criticising the soldiers who were treated as dispensable objects, and aims to condemn the government who forced the soldiers in a position of ‘wanting to drown (them)selves for good’. Onomatopoeia is applied depicting the ‘whizz bangs’ and ‘hammering shells’ to encourage the reader to imagine the relentless nature of an attack. The physical act of dying is also described in Dulce et Decorum Est as the victim is ‘floundering like a man in fire or lime’ while ‘choking’ and ‘drowning’.

The author uses vile imagery and a sarcastic tone in the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” to develop a central theme. He creates a grave mood by using words like “misty panes,” “drowning,” and “guttering” which apply to the readers senses. HIs sarcastic tone when he addresses the reader reveals the theme, if they saw the horrors of war they would not be persuading or encouraging innocent and clueless children to join the war for glory. He is even sarcastic with his title “Dulce et Decorum Est” which means “it is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country.” In the last stanza when he starts speaking directly to the speaker “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory,the old lie: Dulce et decorum

Wilfred Owen’s poem, “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” describes the perspective of a soldier fighting in World War I. In the first stanza, he portrays the current conditions of his comrades and allies, which he compares to as similar to the appearance of a troubled, old beggar. Together, they are exhausted, as they force their ways through thick, sludge-like mud to get to a place of rest away from the front line. From that point forward, he and the soldiers continue past the flares launched by the opposition, which lights them up from behind, causing them to be more easily identifiable, as well as an easier target. Though weak, and wounded, they still march on.

Wilfred Owen uses violence in the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” to prove a point about the way society treats war. The first part of the poem describes soldiers marching in World War I. They are dirty, exhausted, and almost unable to walk. The soldiers are then attacked by mustard gas. The main content of the poem is a description of the violent death of a soldier who couldn’t get his mask on in time. “He plunges at [the narrator], guttering, choking, drowning,” before he is thrown in a wagon and left to a painful death (Owen 16). Owen, a veteran himself, uses this detailed, violent scene to disprove the once popular notion that war should be glorified. The title of the poem is part of the Latin phrase “dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,”

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“If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood. Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs.” Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est is a very gruesome and disturbing poem.

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In his poem, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” Wilfred Owen conveys the idea that war is not glorious. Owen uses many literary devices to help his audience understand this theme. One of the best literary devices is imagery. Imagery is used by the author to create mental pictures for the readers. Owen, in his poem, uses imagery to draw a picture about World War I. He describes the poison gas, “Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,/As under a green sea, I saw him drown” (Owen 12-13). Imagery helps convey the idea that war is not glorious by describing the depressing truth and brutality of war. The personification chosen by Wilfred Owen reinforces the imagery by creating a story that comes alive within the poem. The poem, “Dulce et Decorum

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