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Imagry in Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est"

"Dulce et Decorum Est" is a poem teeming with different types of imagry. Every line and word within the poetry brings something to mind, whether it be a taste to your mouth or a scent to your nose. It's amazing how the author, Wilfred Owen, is able to convey his message of a war and the feelings surrounding it with the simple use of imagry. Many times over visual, aural, and kinesthetic imagry are put into prospective, helping the reader to identify with, feel, and see what it is that the author describes in the poem.
One of the most prevalent forms of imagry that Wilfred Owen uses throughout the poem is visual imagry. The visual being where it was if the poet had tried to paint a picture within the reader's mind, making them see certain things with the way he chose to present the words. Frequently Owen did such throughout the poem with his beautiful word choice. Certain lines brought strikingly vivid images to the reader's mind. In the first stanza alone you are are to visualiz...

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