Analysis Of Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on 18 March 1893, in Oswestry, on the Welsh border of Shropshire, where Owen attended Shrewsbury Technical School and graduated in 1911 at the age of 18. By October 1918 he enlisted in WWI and was at first in the Artists’ Rifles. During his time in the war, he began writing poetry of his violent experiences in France and later died in action. In Dulce et Decorum Est, his choice of words, diction, tone, syntax, and metaphor’s paint a vivid picture of the poem and theme which is war. Owen shows explicitly the horror of the gas attack and the death of a wounded man who has been flung into a wagon. The horror intensifies, becoming a waking nightmare experienced by the viewer, who stares hypnotically at his comrade in the
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