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Analysis of Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est

Dulce et Decorum Est: a Poetry Response

Wilfred Owen was a war poet who fought and died in the trenches of France. He dedicated his works to revealing the atrocities and hardships of war, which the British government had tried to keep hidden from the British public. One of Owen’s more powerful works, “Dulce et Decorum Est”, depicts the appalling conditions in which the soldiers of World War 1 fought under, and is written so skillfully, that every reader is left with numerous grotesque images embedded in his or her mind.

The three stanzas in the poem all serve a different purpose, each strengthening the influence the poem has on readers, and developing the message in a different way. The poem illustrates the sickening death of a man who loses his life during a gas attack and would have made quite an impression on wartime readers, to whom such atrocities were unknown.

The poem makes such a strong impression because of the effectiveness of each stanza and how successfull...

Posted by: John Mayes

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