Dulce Et Decorum Est Comparison

People go to war coming back changed as a person which is sometimes believed to be better and other times believed to be worse. Many people go to war for the sake of serving the country while others fear war and are scared of all the horrors people believe are involved in the act of going to war. The two poems talk about war but their purpose is different for the reason they are talking about war. The two poems can be compared due to their different points of view, the message the poem is trying to get out, and the effect the poem has on the reader. The two poems are different due to their different points of view. The poet in “Dulce et Decorum Est” describes the war with horrifying visions that cannot be forgotten. The poem states, “In all …show more content…
In “Who’s for the Game,” the message the poet tries to get out to the reader is that war is like a game and that you should play the game of war because it is entertaining and the country needs more people to fight in the war to win. This poem says, “Your country is up to her neck in a fight, And she’s looking and calling for you,” which advertises for war and tries to get people to fight in the war so that the country can win the war. It sets this thinking by saying earlier in the poem that the war is a game and it makes the reader think that it will be fun to fight for the country to win the war. In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est,” the message is that you should not go to war because you will see many terrible things that you will not forget. This poem states, “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.” The line in latin is translated to: “It is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country.” The message in this poem is expressed through this line in which the poet does not think it is sweet and fitting for you to die for your country because you suffer from all this horrific stuff that you have to endure. The poet expresses that it is neither sweet nor fitting for a person to have to experience those things and that if you are looking for glory, war is not the place to go. The meaning of the poems are different because in “Who’s for the Game?” the meaning is that you should go to war because it is fun while in “Dulce et Decorum Est,” the meaning is that you should not go to war because of what you will