Analysis Of Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

In “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Owen states the horror of the war has an impact the soldiers, demonstrating that the war is not like the lie we tell children. Conditions in the war were horrific, and disrupted a person’s mental condition, as well as their emotional condition. The poor conditions soldiers had to endure were sleeping on the ground under a thin blanket or sheet that hardly kept them safe from the cold or other weather conditions. Owen used a simile, “like old beggars under sacks” to describe how the harsh weather conditions and stress of the war made the soldiers seem. Using a metaphor, “many lost their boots” to describe the difficulty of marching through the sludge. Soldiers often had sleepless nights from marching for long hours