It Is Not Sweet and Fitting to Die for Your Country

Life is not easy for soldiers in World War I as Wilfred Owen expresses strongly in his famous poem “Dulce et Decorum est.” In the poem, he presents the frightful imagery of World War I. Wilfred Owen also conveys his strongly anti-war sentiments to readers. Through vivid imagery and figurative language, Owen forces readers to experience the war, and therefore gives readers the exact feeling he wants. Owen applies sensory imagery and metaphor to contribute to the power and anti-war sentiment of the poem.
Owen writes “Dulce Et Decorum Est” which reveals the truth behind war—the grief and suffering. Owen wants to dismiss the idea of romance as a motivation to fight in the war; young men believe that fighting in the war will make them heroes and that girls will feel passionate about them. Of course some men do not have an option in the matter; wives and girlfriends choose not to stay with their men if they do not fight in the war, so that men are forced to join the army...