Dulce Et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen was a famous World War 1 officer and poet. No poet had written about the brutalities of war, as vivid as Owen. The intended purpose is to let the readers of his poems realise the intense brutality of war. When Owen died on the bank of the Sambre-Oise canal on the 4th November 1918, not one of his poems had been published. The most famous poem ever written by Owen was a poem called Dulce Et Decorum Est. This poem shows in detail the real brutalities of trench warfare in World War 1. The intended audience which this poem tries to attract would be; a more mature reader, people who have a special interest in poetry or history and someone who has a reasonable level of education. Owen started off by describing an everyday incident and then goes on to make a more serious point about human nature.
In stanza 1, the poem Dulce Et Decorum Est tells the reader about the poor physical condition of the soldiers and their feelings. It tells us that the soldiers are exhausted, carrying a heavy load and still have far to travel before a long deserved rest at base whilst they are being haunted by the flares which are behind them. It creates the image of the soldiers being humpback, ugly, old, women who are trying to walk through deep, wet mud but keep getting sucked down. It tells us that many of the soldiers had no boots but struggled on whilst their feet are caked in blood. It also tells the reader about the shells that were landing behind the soldiers. In stanza 2, it starts off with a shock gas attack and tells the reader how the soldiers managed to get their gas masks on just in time, except from one soldier who was still shouting and struggling. It continues with the image of this person who is dying in an unpleasant way in the green cloudy gas. In stanza 3, the poet talks about his unavoidable dreams of the man who was dying in the gas attack and that there was nothing that he could do to stop the dreams or there was nothing that he...