Dulce Et Decorum Est Analysis Essay
‘Dulce Et Decorum est’ is a poem written during World War I in which Wilfred Owen tries to persuade people that it is not “Sweet and Fitting” to die for ones country. Wilfred Owen uses his own experiences to describe gas attacks he was part of as he and the group of soldiers left the front line trenches. He then goes on to say what it was like to the horror of watching someone who can not get the gas mask on in time and then has his own techniques to describe the image of death, caused by gas. He uses a variety of different techniques to explain what he feels about war and tries to get the reader to understand why they shouldn’t b using jingoistic phrases so light heartedly.
In the first stanza Wilfred Owen uses a variety of different techniques. …show more content…
He uses the senses the most in this stanza as that is the most useful technique to get the horrors across. “And watch the white eyes writhing in his face” is a powerful line because the way it has been described you can see it in your minds eye, another example of his use of sight is “His face hanging, like a devil’s sick of sin”, this line also contains a simile. Sounds are another way Wilfred Owen uses to describe this event, onomatopoeia is used “If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood, come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs” is an example from lines 21 and 22, the way the onomatopoeia is place can not only get you to hear the sounds of the “jolt[ing]” and the “gargling” but you can see them in away. Taste is a very hard sense to put into a poem but it has been used once on line 23 with “bitter as the cud” this not only makes the impression of a very sickly, bitter taste it also makes you feel as thought you are nothing more than an animal. In the last four lines, lines 25-28, Wilfred Owens true meaning comes in to light on line 25 “would not tell with such high zest”, he is not saying not to say it because it is up to you but he is linking this with the poem and other of his experiences to say you would not if you where there you would not be saying these jingoistic phrases “to children ardent for some desperate glory” because children are easy to be moulded into the believing that it is a good
In the first stanza Wilfred Owen uses a variety of different techniques. …show more content…
He uses the senses the most in this stanza as that is the most useful technique to get the horrors across. “And watch the white eyes writhing in his face” is a powerful line because the way it has been described you can see it in your minds eye, another example of his use of sight is “His face hanging, like a devil’s sick of sin”, this line also contains a simile. Sounds are another way Wilfred Owen uses to describe this event, onomatopoeia is used “If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood, come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs” is an example from lines 21 and 22, the way the onomatopoeia is place can not only get you to hear the sounds of the “jolt[ing]” and the “gargling” but you can see them in away. Taste is a very hard sense to put into a poem but it has been used once on line 23 with “bitter as the cud” this not only makes the impression of a very sickly, bitter taste it also makes you feel as thought you are nothing more than an animal. In the last four lines, lines 25-28, Wilfred Owens true meaning comes in to light on line 25 “would not tell with such high zest”, he is not saying not to say it because it is up to you but he is linking this with the poem and other of his experiences to say you would not if you where there you would not be saying these jingoistic phrases “to children ardent for some desperate glory” because children are easy to be moulded into the believing that it is a good