Dulcet Decorum Est

Dolce Et Decorum Est Pro Patri Moria translated in to English means It Is Sweet And Honourable To Die For Ones Country. If someone is reading the poem for the first time and learns of the English meaning of the title before reading the poem they may feel it is a poem that represents the army in a good way. How this assumption is further from the truth. After reading the poem a number of times I have come to a conclusion that Owen named the poem this because of the strong statement that he makes in the poem. In a way I get the feeling that Owen was mocking the saying but I don't think he was mocking the army as a whole just that single principal.
The soldiers are weighed down by all the things that they are carrying, perhaps they are even weighed down by the expectation of their country.
Owen says
" Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs"
The soldiers are fed up. They are so tired that even when the flares go off behind them they don't have the energy or even feel like tur...