Dulce Et Decorum Est Analysis

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!--An ecstasy of fumbling
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie:  Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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| Posted on 2009-09-28 | by a guest

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dulce et decorum est is a poem to show the poets anger and bitterness towards those who think that war is heroic! by katie...

| Posted on 2009-09-06 | by a guest

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it is an attack on a blib patriotic writer Jessie Pope!! you welcome....

| Posted on 2009-09-05 | by a guest

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Dulce et Decorum est is what could be considered an “anti-war” poem, telling of the conditions of his fellow soldiers emphasising the ugliness of war.

| Posted on 2009-07-02 | by a guest

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The structure of the poem through the 3 stanzas starts off as describing the war condionts, then leads to a more worse situation as a fellow soldier of Owen is affected by mustard gas and finally to the end where it describes the soldier's horrible death and associates his death with his opinion that the composer think the Horace oath (Dulce Et Decorum Est) is an "old lie".

| Posted on 2009-03-23 | by a guest

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Owen subjects his bitter attitude towards war in the last line of the poem as he clearly highlights 'dulce et decorum est' as the 'old lie'.

| Posted on 2009-02-28 | by a guest