Dulce Et Decorum Est Comparison

It is amazing how “Regeneration” by Pat Baker and Wilfred Owens poetry such as “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, transmit facts about the war. Both "Regeneration" and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” give a very poignant representation of the war as it really was. In his poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, Wilfred Owen freely communicate to his readers the horrible experience of the war. He does not try to lost the reader or let him wonder what is going on in the poem instead he is giving a clear story about what happened. That is one of the reasons I like this poem and choose to analyze it. Owen is one of the characters that appear in Regeneration by Pat Barker. The tittle “Dulce et Decorum Est” is written in Latin, and it is translated as “It is sweet and honorable”. This is really ironic from the author because I do not think that the horrible memory of the war can in any means be sweet and beautiful. Owen is first …show more content…
Moreover, he uses images such us “beggars”, “sacks”, “hags” to create a clear understanding of how horrible the experience of the war was and how deformed, weak, and desperate the soldiers had become. I believe the experience of the war in itself is very hard to express as well as to comprehend even though the writer uses familiar world to be more comprehensible, clause to the end of the poem he writs “If in some smothering dreams you too could pace”(17), to mean that can really understand what we went through, and the truth experience of the, those who were there present. The author only used “ we “ three times in the whole poem. He uses “we” when describing the soldiers, their condition. We see the apparition of “we” on the second and third lines then it reappear again on the eighteenth line. That might means that they were all together in the dark hole of the war. From the 13th line, Owen becomes more specific. He stops talking about we; he now mentions “a man” and uses the pronoun