How effectively does Owen convey the horror of war?

How effectively does Owen convey the horror or war?


I am going to analyse the poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen and attempt to answer the following question:
“How effectively does Owen convey the horror of war?”
I believe that throughout this poem, war is described as an awful thing where everyone suffers. He manages to convey this horror well by using many different methods.

The first paragraph generally sets the scene of war and the state the men are in. The men are described as ‘beggars’, this suggests they are living in poor conditions and in many ways are like beggars. The next line backs this up:
‘Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge,’,
as this once again suggests they are in bad condition, and that they are having difficulty walking on the muddy ground. The poem says that many of the men had ‘lost their boots’ showing that they had very little during the war, and that they had to keep on going even in bad conditi...