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Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Text
- Poetic Devices
- Metaphor
- Drunk with fatigue
- Green sea
- Alliteration
- Men marched asleep, many had lost their boots
- Repitition of letter "M"
- Hyperbole
- All went lame, all blind
- Personification
- clumsy helmets
- Simile
- coughing like hags
- bent double, like old beggars
- Diction
- Hags
- Background
- Dulce Et Decorum Est was written by Wilfred Owen during the
World War 1. It's known for its horrific imagery and
condemnation of war. The title of "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is
taken from the Latin word which mean "It's sweet and glorious"
which then followed by pro patria mori, which means "to die for
one's country".
- Meaning
- First Stanza
- Explaining about the condition of the
soldiers when they were marching back
to their place. It shows how tired and
bad their condition were.
- Second Stanza
- The soldiers were ambushed by the enemy
with a poisonous gas. They were fitting their
mask as fast as they could to save themselves.
Some got lucky but some didn't survive.
- Third Stanza
- The survivors including the poet himself
were forced to witness a frightening event
with their own eyes which then haunted
them.
- Fourth Stanza
- The poet was describing the event that haunted him
which is watching and witnessing his fellow soldiers and
friends died. As soon as he done describing the most
frightening event that happened in front of him, he told
people to stop telling beautiful lies about the war.