Dulce Et Decorum Est Tone

Wilfred Owen expresses a resentful and panicked tone in his poem Dulce Et Decorum Est in order to emphasize the strength of the individual soldier; while in Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson suggests the loyalty and unity within the soldiers who without a second thought follow orders to their deaths with a tragic yet anticipating tone. The two poems are meant to relay the innate brutality that is war. It reminds the audience that war is death and that it should not be glorified.
Dulce Et Decorum Est represents the innate brutality of war and it's horrific impact on soldiers. Owen uses animalistic words such as "wild" and “lame” to represent the innate savagery of man. By capitalizing the words “Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!” he draws the reader towards these lines therefore giving them so much more meaning. He allows the reader to feel the anticipation and the fear in those words as if they were among those soldiers, their life depending on their quickness to strap on a mask. With the use of such horrific words like, “plunges... guttering, choking, drowning” he stirs a pathos in his audience as
As gas entraps them, these solders are described as ‘flound’ring like a man in fire or lime,’ and Owen words it as such to convey the immense pain the men are feeling. He proceeds to emphasize the innate evil of war and how it corrupts man using a metaphor, 'His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin.’ By alluding to the devil he not only reminds us that war is as evil as the devil himself but he uses this euphemism of hell to juxtapose the euphemism of heaven earlier in the poem. This then, produces a religious allegory of the light of man versus the darkness in man and his drive to overcome it. Owen’s overall message to his readers is that the saying of “Dulce Et Decorum Est; Pro patria mori” is wrong because there is no glory in death, especially death through