Analysing Willfred Owens Dulce Et Decorum Est. Essay -- English Liter

Analysing Willfred Owens Dulce Et Decorum Est.Dulce ET Decorum Est is an anti-war poem, which emphasizes theintensity of war. The meaning of the ironic title roughly translatedinto it is good and honourable but is not fully established untilyou visualize the poem. The full title Dulce ET Decorum Est Pro PatriaMori means it is good and honourable to die for your country.However the main aspect of this poem is paradoxical to its title. Thisdemonstrates the sum Wilfred Owens is insinuating and hisattitude towards war.The poem is regarding Wilfred Owen and his troop of exhausted soldiersmaking their way back to base after combat at the front line until agas shell is fired at them. A soldier is fatally gassed, is put in anambulance dying slowly and then eaten away from the inside.Owen describes a small-arm being engulfed by gas,Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,Under a green sea I saw him drowning.The death and discommode is shown and the harsh actuality of waruncovere d. It is almost as though you be reliving the agony the manis suffering. The reader is nowhere near as unfortunate as Wilfred. Hewas repeatedly tortured by his experiences even after having toencounter them.In all my dreams before my helpless sight,He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.It is an inescapable reposition that haunts him even when he attempts tosleep, on constant replay in his treacherous mind. His feeling ofhelplessness from that mo ment were captured and frozen, regret for nothelping covered with hope, the guess that he was unable to doanything useful anyway. A sense of regret, disbelief and anger arereused in other anti-war poems that Wilfred Owen ha... ... aid the pain once and nonoperationalendured. Owen has created a way that transports the reader back to thescene of the poem. Using the effectiveness of the senses. He describesthe sounds, the smells and the sights around to give the feeling thatyou witnessing the happenings expressed.My final contempl ations to conclude this analysis are not in despairbut queries, whether it is rhetorical or not I am not completely sure.The thing that concerns me is how the government send men off to fightwar when under the misapprehension that they are fighting for theircountry? Do they have no conscious, no guilt in displace the doomedyouth off to their inevitable deaths? The decisions they makeobviously have repercussions as do all decisions, but to knowinglycondemn so legion(predicate) innocent people to physical and mental torture thendeath, to me is worse murder, is it not?