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Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen
Dulce et Decorum Est is a line taken from the Latin odes
of Roman poet Horace meaning "it's proper and sweet to
loose ones' life for the love of the country." However,
Owen poem's title is ironic as it depicts the hideous war
that claimed a large number of fighters. This 1 is due to the
fact that 2 any death results in sadness and there was no
"sweetness in anybody losing his/her life" in the war
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(Owen 461). This poem resonates today with brutal
imagery and language written by a soldier healing from the
war wounds and brave and ready to return to the battlefield.
Furthermore, the poem explains the overall mental and
physical state of the soldiers. In other words, the author
basis on the fact that war is not honorable but takes away
humanity, honor, morality and degrades people.
Winfred Owen wrote the Dulce ET Decorum Est poem
with the aim of depicting his own experiences in the
trenches during the period of world war one (Hibberd 125).
The anticipated purpose of the title of the poem is to
confront the individuals far away from the war 3 not to be
quick praising the war 4 thinking that dying on the trenches
of the battlefield was "sweet." The main 5 theme of the
Wilfred poem is the war violence which inflicted pain,
suffering, and wounds to fighters.
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In the poem, the main characters the main characters are
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the narrator or the speaker and the soldier who was affected
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Repetitive word: war
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by the chlorine gas. Also, in the last fourteen lines, there is
an unnamed receiver who can be classified 6 as an absent
character. Through the poem analysis, it is easy to
associate the narrator in "Dulce et Decorum est" with the
poet(Owen). The poem is based 7 on the own poet
experience on the battlefield in world war 1and this is
proved by the poet using possessive and personal pronouns
such as "my," "we" and "I" in the last and first stanzas. The
soldier who perishes due to the inhalation of chlorine gas is
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a central figure featured in the poem. The speaker in the
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poem emphasizes on implicit effects of the gas on the
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soldier and points out that the case is commonly
experienced 8 during warfare.
In this historical 9 poem, Owen uses metaphors to show the
physical state of the men involved in the war. For instance,
he used phrases such as deaf to the hoots and drunk with
fatigue to reflect the tiredness of the troops. Additionally,
the phrase blood-shod and smothered shows how the
fighters were covered 10 with blood as well as panic and
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fear during the wartime. Mostly, Owen phrases are aimed 11
at describing suffering and eventual death of the war
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participants using metaphors which gave the poem deeper
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meaning
Wilfred Owen poem is rich in smileys which illustrates the
gory details of the World War 1 especially 12 the gas attacks
which claimed a lot of lives. Phrases like old beggars
illustrate 13 how the fighters were deprived health and
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dignity, dispossessed and converted to elderly beggars
begging for a living. The phrase "like a devil" implies the
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loathing pain and suffering of the men who turned their
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faces to devil-like. Additionally, the phrase "obscene of
cancer" is used in the poem as a comparison to the brutality
and death sites caused by poisonous gas (Kirschbaum 615).
Generally, 14 the author has employed smiley as a literary
element to convey the activities and conditions which the
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soldiers were subjected 15 to during the war. Through this
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literary element, the author is able to 16 attain the objective
of the poem expressing the irony of the truth of what
occurs on the battlefield and the lying propaganda at the
home country.
In Dulce et Decorum Est, the author uses imagery and
symbolism to compare the fighters to hags and beggars.
Imagery 17 runs throughout the poem. The first imagery is
that of "dreams" in which Owen went through nightmares
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due to the battle experiences in his mind. This element is
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used to enhance the discussion of different forms of the
author's experience in an operating idea in the form 18 of
imagery to give the audience a complex 19 understanding of
the whole poetry theme. In order to 20 keep the poem
focused on the main subject, the author uses tightness of
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imagery which defines a good and a great poem. This 21 is
achieved 22 by giving the readers a chance to interpret the
images in their perspective and hence creating a
reactionary language throughout the poem
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In conclusion, the poet employs different types of literary
elements to express and enable the readers to appreciate the
concept of irony which lies between the truth and the lies
associated with warfare. Dulce et Decorum est poem is
enriched 23 with various literary devices such as the use of
imagery, personification, similes, and metaphors- just to
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mention a few in order to 24 combine both literature and
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history courses in representing the horrors of the battlefield
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and the bitterness and suffering it causes to the soldiers.
The speaker ironically and bitterly refutes the idea which is
based 25 on the myth that war is glorious and hence it is an
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honor for a soldier to die fighting for his country. The
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purpose of Owen's poem is to show the public that war is
not all glorious and that dying for one's country is not as
sweet as it is believed to be.
Work cited
Hibberd, D. (2010). Dulce et Decorum Est Analysis: 1917.
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The First World War, 123-155. Doi:10.1007/978-1-34920712-1_5
Kirschbaum, S. J. (2009). Dulce et Decorum est
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summary…? Études Internationales, 15(3), 615.
Doi:10.7202/701705ar
Owen, W. (2014). Dulce et Decorum Est. British Journal of
Psychiatry, 204(06), 461. Doi:10.1192/bjp.bp.114.148304
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