Dulce Et Decorum Est The poets feels that that war reduces people to mere beggars and hags.

He starts off the poem with an image of soldiers, bent double and compares them old beggars under sacks. The image of men doubled, creates and suggests the possibility that the men have indeed doubled into two people, men before the war, and men during or after the war, as they seem to seem like two different people. Then in the next line, the poet uses comparison again this time, comparing the soldiers to hags. Diction is also used to emphasize the word as hags brings to mind witches, which generally causes people to feel bad vibes about situations, in the case the war. The author also appeals to the readers sense of hearing through using words such as coughing to bring the readers attention that the soldiers were not in the best of health. The other word is cursed which implies that the soldiers were having a bad time out in the battlefield. The poet feels that war is tough, and affects the soldiers wellbeing physically and mentally. What the poet witnessed during the war and about most wars in general is that abnormality becomes the norm during the duration of the wars. In the 5th line, the poet describes men through the use of imagery to intensify the scene, men can now march(ed) asleep, and though theyve lost their boots, they still limp(ed) on. All these behavior is generally classified as abnormal as men normal sleep and not march, or march when theyre awake. When someone loses their boots, they would go search instead of pretending nothing was unusual. War causes men to do behave abnormally. War makes the soldiers jaded, for example, when there are hoots of gas-shells dropping softly behind the soldiers are deaf to it. The author uses all went lame, all blind to describe the weariness the soldiers feel after fighting. They have problems marching, and are blind to all the scenes happening around them, almost as though they werent there in person, but they were actually there, so it is kind of frightening to imagine the extent of fatigue that made the soldiers act in that manner. The authors repeated use of all in all went lame, all blind implies that war spares no one, and none can escape the impact of war on them. In the third stanza, the poet uses lines which are synonymous with death, guttering, choking, drowning. These words are used to describe the man whom he sees dying right before his eyes. The implies that war is the bringer of death, the cause of most soldiers death. When the author uses my helpless sight, we know that his sight works well, after all, he can see the image of the man dying in fact, the poets active sight, which becomes the problem. What the poet is actually describing, however, is the helplessness of the speaker himself. The poet feels very helpless as he sees his fellow countryman die right before his eyes, unable to help. Alliteration is used in the next stanza to bring out all the gory details as how the man dies. It is a disturbing imagery created by the poet that makes it seem almost as though the soldiers eyes had a life of their own. This appeals to the readers sense of sight. The poet uses a comparison to describe the dying mans face. The causes the reader to imagine the devil, who lives for sin but discovers that he is sick of it. This implies that it is a disillusionment and that it is disappointing, as everything he believed in turns out to be worthless. If the devil gets sick of sinning, there is no use for his existence. The poet uses this to draw a comparison the soldier, as it seems that in the last moments of the soldiers life, he questions himself, whether it was worth fighting that war. Like a sinless devil, the soldier, when he is dying sees the pointlessness in his existence in war. The poet feels

that after witnessing so much abnormality, devastation and death, war is pointless as it just causes destruction. The author describes in morbid detail the dying soldiers last moments before leaving the realm of the living. Using imagery, the poet appeals to the readers sense of sight and hearing though blood come gargling from the froth corrupted lung and even the sense of taste as he describes it as being bitter as the cud. These images when projected brings forth the idea that war is disgusting and full of bitterness when death, especially through inhuman methods through gassing a man with chlorine. The final lines of the poems sums up entirely the poets feelings about war in general. He feels that fighting or being part of the war may seem glorious but the truth hits very far from home. The poem ends off with the old lie: dulce et decorum est, Pro patria maria, meaning that it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country is often said, but the poet feels that it is not true at all due to the inclusion of the word lie. The poet feels that the idea of fighting in the war is vastly overrated, as war basically causes destruction and devastation. Done by Elizabeth foo (4), sec 3/2