Poem Analysis of Dulce

Wilfred Owen was an officer in the British Army during the times of World War One whereby he deeply opposed the intervention of one nation into another as he believed that sufferings and pain would be set upon the innocent and the helpless ones of both countries. The harsh and negative-to-the-extreme language used may also be due to he being angry at the moment when he was writing the poem.
This poem sparks off at the scene where soldiers are brutally killed by gas bombs in the night as they walk towards their “ distant rest ”. It is said that Owen composed this poem during his World War I experience, however there is not enough information in the poem to support this. He wrote this anti-war poem to convey his idea or opinion of the horrors of war and death and that war is not worth it, as he speaks against the old lie perpetuated across the world: Sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country, exposing the shallowness of the assumption behind this Latin phrase. Owen’s mai...