Dulce Et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen
In Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est,” the author focuses on the hardships encountered on the battlefield. Owen goes on to make these points through figurative language and vivid descriptions of events in the poem. The author forces the reader to question the phrase Dulce et decorum est Pro partria mori though his use of similes to express the idea that honorable deaths are not beautiful, but tragic and brutal.
This poem immediately sets up a negative perspective of what it is like on a battlefield by using a simile in the first line. Owen expresses that the soldiers are “Bent double, like old beggars under sack, knock-kneed, coughing like hags…” (lines 1-2). This association compares the struggle of combats to the homeless who are
This poem immediately sets up a negative perspective of what it is like on a battlefield by using a simile in the first line. Owen expresses that the soldiers are “Bent double, like old beggars under sack, knock-kneed, coughing like hags…” (lines 1-2). This association compares the struggle of combats to the homeless who are