Dulce Et Decorum Est And All Quiet On The Western Front

At the beginning of the war many citizens were encouraged by the government to join the war and support their country. People enlisted and went off to support the war. During the war when troops wouldn’t be fighting there would be down time with your unit. Many soldiers played games and read books while some wrote poetry. There are many poems that express what the war was like in the soldier’s perspective. Just like in the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” it is a soldiers account of warfare in World War 1. The poem relates to the book All Quiet on the Western Front because they are both soldiers accounts of what first person warfare was like. “Dulce et Decorum Est” relates to the book All Quiet on the Western Front because what life was like in the trench, handling mustard gas, and coping with deaths of solders. The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” illustrates what a soldier’s life was like being in the war and what life was like after being in the trenches for some time. “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks.” The first line describes the soldiers are tired and in need of help. The soldiers are leaning against the trench wall doubled over like old beggars. This means that the soldiers have …show more content…
It focuses on life in the trenches and the horrible conditions that they had to go through. Along with the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” which is closely related to the book. The poem describes the soldiers in the trench slowly crawling to their final destination. Later in the book Paul group gets bombarded with gas and has to warn others to wear their gas mask or they will die. Just like in the poem when the narrator warns the other troops that gas is coming. Then there are a few men that don’t put on their gas mas in time then they are choking and drowning in gas. Both the poem and the book illustrate what it was like to be a soldier during World