Similarities Between Dulce Et Decorum Est And The Rear-Guard

Although Dulce et Decorum Est and The Rear-Guard are very different poems set in very different scenarios, they have similarities, and can be related to the Ghost Road; indeed, both poems and the novel make the reader confront the uncomfortable truths of war. It is interesting that all these texts are so psychological in that they show a man being driven to insanity through the horrors that they witness, whether it’s the ‘smothering dreams’ of Dulce et Decorum Est’s speaker or the soldier ‘with sweat of horror in his hair’ in The Rear-Guard. Both scenarios are so different, but extended exposure to both settings cause both protagonists to react in acutely similar ways. Furthermore, Dulce et Declorum Est poem concludes with a repetition of its