Analysis Of Dulce Et Decorum Est By Wilfred Owen

From reading the poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen I noticed it is told through the third person narrative. The poem is showing the causes of what war can do to soldiers. Metaphors like “ Knock-kneed, coughing like hags,we cursed through sludge,” show how soldiers were effected by poison and other unknown conditions in another country from their own. But, at a certain part of the poem we are actually told of one person who is a solider and seeing his comrades die right in front of him. You could tell how the solider is unable to do anything to help and slowly watch his members fall like dominoes. This poem reflects the cycle of war. We as human beings sent our own kind to fight in a unfamiliar territory. Soldiers see and feel all
sorts of events which ultimately changed their lives permanently. Then we learn that this is the true side of war that people die for a cause. The poem also features rhyming in all of the stanzas.