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Dulce Et Decorum Est
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The irony in the poem Dulce it Decorum Est is that it is not sweet and fitting to die for
one’s country when you have actually experienced war. Owen is describing how psychologically
and physically exhausting W.W.I was for the soldiers that had to endure such a cruel ordeal and
not how patriotic an ....
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....nd thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
The way Owen describes a comrade watching as a lone soldier is struggling to get his mask
fastened awakens the minds of the readers to see the psychological effect that this had on the
soldiers. Making the reader see that war is cruel and unjust.
In the third stanza Owen is describing the dead soldier. This allows the reader to view war
in its full affect:
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, ch.... |
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