Dulce Et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen

Since the beginning of time, outlooks on the war have changed in several ways. Today, most believe that it is a very grotesque thing and it takes an extremely brave soul to fight for something that he/she believes in, especially if they know it may result in death. Back in the time of WW1, people thought that it was a beautiful, romantic sacrifice to die in the war, and even for your own son to do so. In the poem “Dulce et decorum Est” By Wilfred Owen, he conveys his experiences from when he was in the war and how the idea of dying during it, shouldn’t be a casualty that comes with war, his ideas were against most when it came to WW1. Owen uses diction, vivid imagery, and figurative language to help convey his objective tone to the oblivious opinions of others during this horrible time in history. …show more content…
When describing the way the men had to die, Owen states, “If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from the forth-corrupted lungs” this intense diction reveals just how much they sacrificed for what they believed was the right thing to do, and shows Owen’s attitude toward WW1. Also, as the poem goes on, he tries to reveal to the reader how innocent and hopeless these men were when it came to what others thought about dying in the war “To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori” this phrase means “It is beautiful and sweet to die for ones country”, the men knew no greater courage than to go fight for their country, Owen states this at the end of the poem to show how wrong it as for people to take such a terrible thing so