Many people used to mistake war as a beautiful, sweet thing; a place where young men went to give their family pride. But, as a man who went through the pain and suffering first hand, Wilfred Owen wrote a poem called “Dulce et Decorum Est”. It is a poem about the realities of war and the horrors that come with it. Owen splits his poem into two different parts, using visual ideas in the first half, and visceral ideas in the second half in order to negatively display war to his readers, which in this case, are mostly young men being persuaded by society to go to war. Visual concepts are used in this poem to persuade young men to stay home, rather than listen to society and go to war. In war, there is no sympathy. Men risk dying in the worst
