Dulce Et Decorum Est The poem is about the war.

Wilfred Owen the writer of the poem Dulce et decorum est was written during the time of World war I. The poem is about the experience that he felt during the World War I. The poem explains how all the young men died in the war. They were dying noble and heroic deaths. The narrator of the poem is Wilfred Owen himself and explains that the poem will encourage young people to fight for their own country but in reality fighting for your country is simply sentencing yourself to an unnecessary death. The title of the poem Dulce et decorum est is incomplete as in the last stanzathe complete line is written. The title of the poem means It is sweet and fitting and Wilfred Owen continues to end his poem with the same line but completed. The poem is set in a war background. Words like Gas, helmets, blood shot and five nines (shells) suggest that Wilfred Owen wrote the poem during the war time. It also gives us the picture how World war was and what things were used during the war. The poem gives detail description of the battle field of World War I. The line misty pane and thick green light suggest that the world was changed by the dropping of gas shells and then started people dying and chocking in the green gas. The flares overhead are haunting suggest that the battlefield may be one step closer to the afterlife. By the end of the poem, it seems that we have moved from the battlefield. The poem turns inward because we have already got the good sense of just how nightmarish actual battle scenes are, however the difference between the speakers mind and a minefield does not seem to be that great. We can see that ammunition is much more important than the soldiers in the entire poem. Wilfred says that there is no difference between the scenes of wartime and the traumatized mind of a soldier after battle because the soldiers mind never leaves the battlefield. Because of the sound of the shells, the chocking effect of the gas and blood shots. There is a lot of action taking place in the poem. In the first, the soldiers are compared to old baggers lying under the sacks and coughing. The words like coughing, haunting, marched, limped and the five nines dropped behind describe the action taking place in the battlefield. The action which takes place is the bombardments and the soldiers walking half dead. It seems like that there is no reaction from the soldiers when the five nines were falling behind.

Suddenly in the second paragraph, we can notice the sudden panic due to the green gas. Therefore suddenly the soldiers started fumbling and fitting their helmets just in time to run away from the gas. There was a lot of rush in the second stanza everyone is chocking. The third stanza is very small only two lines and it describes lot about the action taking place in the battlefield like soldiers chocking, drowning in the gas and guttering. Wilfred describes it as a helpless sight. The last stanza it seems like that we have been taken away from the battle field as there are no words which describe the action taking place in the battlefield. Wilfred Owen uses imagery to describe the poem. He uses a lot of visual imagery and sound imagery to describe how the battlefield looked like and what problems the soldiers used to face during the war time. The whole poem is filled with imagery. In the first paragraph, he uses words like coughing, haunting and blood-shod to describe the appearance of the soldiers and also shows the feeling of pain they used to face. Visual imagery is used in the second stanza for describing the gas attack during the battle. The use of green light by the Wilfred to show the visual idea of the battlefield. In the last stanza there is not much us of visual imagery. Wilfred Owen starts describing the impact of the incident on him from lines 15 to 27. The tense suddenly changes from past to present. The word guttering refers to the choking noises by the soldiers. He suddenly changes reference from you to my friend, to say that this person can walk behind the wagon. Owen is trying to show us how dreadful this death was. The last sentence "The Old lie: Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori" makes it clear to the reader and the point of the title, because as we know it means "sweet and fitting" but when Owen has finished his sentence, we understand that there is nothing "sweet and fitting" to die for ones country. Wilfred Owen uses metaphors and similes extensively not only to increase drama, but to revel more of meaning. Wilfred Owen uses ing as a sense of urgency in the poem. The entire poem is on rhythmic caplets. Wilfred Owen uses a lot of metaphors in the poem example in the second stanza sea has been used to signify gas and shod is used to signify shoot. In line 20, he uses alliteration and simile to compare the hanging faces with the devils sick of killing.

The poem was written by Wilfred Owen to motivate the young people to join the army and specifies dying for our country as sweet and right. But from the poem we get an opinion that dying for the country is not at all sweet and right.