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    negativity of war and its effect on society. Physical‚ psychological and emotional suffering is also dealt with in his poems. The poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ Deals with these ideas and reflects both on the ideas and characteristics of Owen’s poetry as a whole. The idea of loss and its sub sequential ideas of the loss of youth‚ innocence and life used in ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ provide a grounding establishment in relation to Owen’s poetry as a whole. In the poem‚ the soldiers are described as desperate

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    The poems Disabled and Dulce et Decorum Est have one main theme in common: War and Conflict. The poets have explored and presented this theme in similar ways through their commentary and the way individuals should react to the poems’ content. Disabled expresses the tormented thoughts and memories of a teenaged soldier in World War I who has lost his limbs in battle and is now trapped‚ helpless‚ to a wheelchair making him useless. Whereas in Dulce Et Decorum the Poet says it is not honorable to die

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    Sugar-Coated Lies Wars are always difficult to cope with. “Dulce et Decorum est” is a poem by Wilfred Owen expressing the hardships many soldiers had to face during the First World War‚ the importance of remembering the terrible events that occurred‚ and how completely bogus the phrase ‘it is sweet and right’ truly is. It must have been a horrifying experience for these men to fight for their country‚ especially at a very young age where they had a promising future ahead of them. But sadly‚ plenty

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    Dulce Et Decorum Est In the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est is a poem about a soldier who fought in a war. In the story it tells readers about him witnessing another soldier dying a gruesome and horrible death. The author’s tone of this story is‚ sad.The tone of the story is sad and happy because he just watched a guy die‚ but the guy died for his country so there are two sides to the poem. A detail in the poem that leads me to believe that the a tone of the poem is sad‚ is when it says “ dim through

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    and fight for their country‚ which makes perfect sense for a woman to say as women during the time of world war one often encouraged men to join war as they stayed behind to look after the children ect. But the poems I want to discuss are “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “Who’s for The Game?” by Jesse Pope. The play i’m going to Discuss is “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare. “Macbeth”‚ written in the 17th century‚ immediately opens with treason‚ with war in the country. This battle

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    key words | |How are the protagonists’ and the authors’ attitudes towards humanity highlighted and emphasized in the poems “Dulce et Decorum Est” and “Refugee Blues”. | | | |Main points to put in introduction:

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    comparing the poems ‘The Charge Of The light Brigade’ By Alfred Lord Tennyson and ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ By Wilfred Owen. I will be evaluating the points of the language‚ emotions‚ the subject and the purpose of both of the poems. I will contrast both and then conclude what poem I believe presents a better picture of war to the reader. Poem 1 will be The Charge Of The light Brigade and poem 2 will be Dulce et Decorum Est. First off I shall talk about the purpose of the poems. Poem 1’s purpose‚ in my

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    Wilfred Owen ----------------------- Dulce Et Decorum Est Bent double‚ like old beggars under sacks‚ Knock-kneed‚ coughing like hags‚ we cursed through sludge‚ Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots But limped on‚ blood-shod. All went lame; all blind; Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots Of disappointed shells that dropped behind. GAS! Gas! Quick‚ boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling

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    How can different perceptions about one topic be expressed in poetry? The main theme that the two sets of poems convey is war‚ but it’s expressed in different point of views through the use of diction that builds tone. The tones of these poems play a big role in conveying the differences between the different eras that these poems are written in‚ and shows how societies have changed from the Victorian era till the time of World War I. The diction and tone in Borden and Owen’s poems is so much

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    States. The bitter sweet right to die for your country. Most of the time there is no real threat and your die for nothing. This was the idea of famous poet Wilfred Owen. In his poem Dulce Et Decorum Est‚ he explains that the sweet right to die for your country is a lie. “The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori.” The only outcome of a sweet right to die is a miserable‚ without cause‚ death. The aftermath of war is an uncertainty‚ chaos‚ regret‚ devestation of life and the transformation of

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