Dulce: Motivating Men To Go To War

Dulce was written in response to Jesse Pope’s patriotic poem motivating men to go to war called Who's for the Game? She compared the war to a innocent rugby game, a verse that could have irritated was
Who would much rather come back with a crutch
Than lie low and be out of the fun?
The fact that Jesse said that people would come back with just a crutch was insane, it was portrayed as bad to stay at home, instead of not fighting being described as safe Jesse called it ‘ lying low’ which comes across as sneaky.

Jesse pope wrote children books and that featured patriotic beliefs and that is why Owen mentioned that children should never be told that it is good to die for your country;

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent) for some desperate glory,
The focus in each scene of Dulce et Decorum EST was to show people how wrong the propaganda was about the war, and that the general public was wrong too. The events that happened in each scene of the poem contradicted everything that people assumed was supposed to happen in battle. The scenes showed all aspects of what happened during and after the war.
1) Suffering, stanza one as the men staggered from The