Dulce et Decorum Est

What makes this poem so great is it's ability to move the reader. By using strong words, symbolic images, and unpleasant situations, it keeps the reader's attention and focuses their mind. Although Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) manages to bring forth these literary techniques, he also keeps to a poetic frame, using rhyme to almost give the poem a musical beat. By far the nearest thing that I can think of is that it almost feels like you are marching through the poem, slowly drudging into what these poor boys had to call daily life. The irony of the poem is almost incomprehensible.
Owen uses vocabulary that quickly shifts the reader's frame of mind. Although it starts off in the first stanza as him almost telling a story, soon it changes, to where we are actually there, in the story. For instance, the first stanza is full of past-tense verbs: "lost their boots," "turned our backs," "cursted through sludge." But the second stanza, almost as if we are all reliving......

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Title: Dulce Et Decorum Est
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