Wilfred Owen’s Poem, Dulce Et Decorum Est, is a message in response to the propaganda for World War One in Britain. Owen’s home country of Britain produced propaganda to influence the men of the country to join the effort to save their country. Owen signed up for the war effort and saw first hand that what the British government advocates of the war is not what is really experienced on the front lines. The significance of this document is to show the realities of war to the population not experience he fight first hand.
Owen wrote this poem for the people at home, therefore his writing style uses a significant amount of metaphors to help the people not on the Frontline of the war experience it. This translates to historians of today’s era …show more content…
Dying in the line of battle was not the brave and glorious event that British propaganda made it out to be. Owen describes in his poems an undisguised version of the hardships of war. Rather then enhance the image of dying in war, Owen chronicled the violence and gruesomeness that occurred. The title of Owen’s poem, Dulce Et Decorum Est translates to ‘it is sweet and right to die for your country’. The title contradicts what the writing of the poem is actually trying to convey. Owen used this as the title to show what the British government wanted to depict death in war was not true …show more content…
In his poem, Owen refers to the soldiers who believe, “The old lie;Dulce et Decorum est,” meaning it is sweet and right to die for your country as ‘children’. The use of the word ‘children’ infers the naive concepts that the “men” who go to battle will die great deaths. Owen was considered a great soldier especially seeing that in October of 1918 he received the Military Cross of Bravery. He witnessed death after death of his friends and in his early career during the war he was diagnosed with shell shock. While being at the hospital to receive treatment for shell shock, Owen met the poet Siegfried Sasson. Siegfried greatly influenced Owen’s writings and motivated him to produce his work. Sasson also shared the same ideas of the war as Owen did, the pointlessness of such terrible violence and the lack of knowledge for the people not on the Frontline of what war was actually
Owen wrote this poem for the people at home, therefore his writing style uses a significant amount of metaphors to help the people not on the Frontline of the war experience it. This translates to historians of today’s era …show more content…
Dying in the line of battle was not the brave and glorious event that British propaganda made it out to be. Owen describes in his poems an undisguised version of the hardships of war. Rather then enhance the image of dying in war, Owen chronicled the violence and gruesomeness that occurred. The title of Owen’s poem, Dulce Et Decorum Est translates to ‘it is sweet and right to die for your country’. The title contradicts what the writing of the poem is actually trying to convey. Owen used this as the title to show what the British government wanted to depict death in war was not true …show more content…
In his poem, Owen refers to the soldiers who believe, “The old lie;Dulce et Decorum est,” meaning it is sweet and right to die for your country as ‘children’. The use of the word ‘children’ infers the naive concepts that the “men” who go to battle will die great deaths. Owen was considered a great soldier especially seeing that in October of 1918 he received the Military Cross of Bravery. He witnessed death after death of his friends and in his early career during the war he was diagnosed with shell shock. While being at the hospital to receive treatment for shell shock, Owen met the poet Siegfried Sasson. Siegfried greatly influenced Owen’s writings and motivated him to produce his work. Sasson also shared the same ideas of the war as Owen did, the pointlessness of such terrible violence and the lack of knowledge for the people not on the Frontline of what war was actually