The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen revolves around soldiers which are at war and are being faced with different obstacles. The meaning of the poems title is the opposite of what the poem is conveying to us. The poems title means “It Is Sweet and Proper”, however as you read the poem it completely different. The things the soldiers are going through is making them seem older than what they actually are. They also seem to be dying from the different situations they are going through. The scenarios shown in the poem seems to contradict the proud image of soldiers that we have been shown about soldiers at war. The appearance, hardships and environment is brought into light through this poem.
The poem starts of by describing the appearance …show more content…
An incident most has occurred in this part of the poem because there seem to be yelling judging from the exclamation marks used. The poem says “GAS! GAS! QUICK, boys!” (Owen line 9). This seems like they were getting attacked by gas and they were trying to escape from it. The aggressiveness from the use of punctuation shows how serious the situation is. In Miller Tyrus’s Overview of 'Dulce et Decorum Est ' states “Owen captures the confusion and fear of a panicky mass of men scurrying to save themselves from threatening death”. This shows the different emotions the men are faced with going through this gas attack. Although, we all know that in war there is a chance of death, we believe that the government is giving them resources to survive most of the things being thrown at them. However, in the poem them seem to lack supplies that would help them through different situations. This gives me the impression that our men are not protected by the government, they are sent out to survive on their own. It seems like they have to run from certain things and can’t even defend themselves. However, on TV we are being shown that Americans are winning the war, however we aren’t being shown the difficulties the soldiers are being face
The poem starts of by describing the appearance …show more content…
An incident most has occurred in this part of the poem because there seem to be yelling judging from the exclamation marks used. The poem says “GAS! GAS! QUICK, boys!” (Owen line 9). This seems like they were getting attacked by gas and they were trying to escape from it. The aggressiveness from the use of punctuation shows how serious the situation is. In Miller Tyrus’s Overview of 'Dulce et Decorum Est ' states “Owen captures the confusion and fear of a panicky mass of men scurrying to save themselves from threatening death”. This shows the different emotions the men are faced with going through this gas attack. Although, we all know that in war there is a chance of death, we believe that the government is giving them resources to survive most of the things being thrown at them. However, in the poem them seem to lack supplies that would help them through different situations. This gives me the impression that our men are not protected by the government, they are sent out to survive on their own. It seems like they have to run from certain things and can’t even defend themselves. However, on TV we are being shown that Americans are winning the war, however we aren’t being shown the difficulties the soldiers are being face