What Is The Significance Of Dulce Et Decorum Est

In the year 1920, a few years after it was first drafted, Wilfred Owen published his poem Dulce et Decorum est. His poem, one of the most famous pieces of literature during this time about The Great War, told a story of the lives of soldiers living in the trenches. The poem starts out talking about himself (or the view of a fictional person who is telling the story in first person) who start to head to one of the camps designated for soldiers to rest as flares light up the night sky behind them. The poem then goes on to talk about the other soldiers in the trenches, ranging from those who are slumbering, to those who are bloody and bootless, most likely do to the trenches being filled with water, leading to trench foot, along with those who are going death from the sounds of bullets and artillery shells whizzing through the air.
The poem continues on with gas filling the trenches, and the soldiers lying within them fumbled and stumbled as they tried to cover their faces with the gas masks. One soldier had failed to protect themselves, and as he …show more content…
The poem has then been featured in other literary works after its publication as well. The feelings from this poem carried on in the future for World War II as well with the patriotism of civilians and those who signed up to fight and die for their countries. One of the largest factors that led to the beginning of World War II was the lack of Japan at the table when the Treaty of Versailles was signed and the ramifications enforced on Germany after the war, even though Austria-Hungary was the actual cause of the declarations of war. Japan then had to continue spreading their borders for resources These two reasons brought more resentment toward Great Britain and France, and the eventual rise in militarism of both Japan and Germany and the rise of Adolph