What is the Meaning of Sweet?
What is the Meaning of Sweet?
What is the Meaning of Sweet? Dulce et Decorum Est, a poem written by Wilfred Owen, expels the definition of jolly, yet translates into “it is Sweet and”. What is so sweet? This question ponders the reader as they divulge into a whirlwind of Combat Gnosticism, the realistic ideal of the front hand experiences encountered in war. The title, so eloquently put, holds no truth to the cold and bitter reality witnessed by so many soldiers in first hand scenes of the horrid calamities and chaos of war, the basis in which Owen writes his most ineloquent poem. Owen’s message in Dulce et Decorum Est, is to show the inevitability of prediction while on the battlefront; how at any point chaos can unfold. Being a man of previous duty, Owen has witnessed such accounts as in the Battle of Somme, having been affected by shell shock. His experience in war, allowed him to write Dulce et Decorum Est in a most bitter reality, free of any false idioms. The basis of Dulce et Decorum est is that of inevitability of the battlefront.
“All went lame; all blind/ Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots/ Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling/ Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time.” (Owen, 1921, Lines 6-10).
This scenes imagery holds true to Owen’s thematic reference, as the soldiers quietly drudge endlessly through enemy territory, when all of a sudden a gas bomb is dropped from behind them, unknowing. The truth found within these lines of rapid chaos, show that war can only predict one event, and that is chaos. Owen may undoubtedly agree that where there is war, there is no return. “Owen's method of dramatic description seeks to make the physical and psychological suffering of the war more vivid to the reader, who is invited to share the eyewitness perspective of the narrator.” (Bloom, 2002, pp. 14-16). The scenes that follow in Dulce et Decorum Este
What is the Meaning of Sweet? Dulce et Decorum Est, a poem written by Wilfred Owen, expels the definition of jolly, yet translates into “it is Sweet and”. What is so sweet? This question ponders the reader as they divulge into a whirlwind of Combat Gnosticism, the realistic ideal of the front hand experiences encountered in war. The title, so eloquently put, holds no truth to the cold and bitter reality witnessed by so many soldiers in first hand scenes of the horrid calamities and chaos of war, the basis in which Owen writes his most ineloquent poem. Owen’s message in Dulce et Decorum Est, is to show the inevitability of prediction while on the battlefront; how at any point chaos can unfold. Being a man of previous duty, Owen has witnessed such accounts as in the Battle of Somme, having been affected by shell shock. His experience in war, allowed him to write Dulce et Decorum Est in a most bitter reality, free of any false idioms. The basis of Dulce et Decorum est is that of inevitability of the battlefront.
“All went lame; all blind/ Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots/ Of gas-shells dropping softly behind. Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling/ Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time.” (Owen, 1921, Lines 6-10).
This scenes imagery holds true to Owen’s thematic reference, as the soldiers quietly drudge endlessly through enemy territory, when all of a sudden a gas bomb is dropped from behind them, unknowing. The truth found within these lines of rapid chaos, show that war can only predict one event, and that is chaos. Owen may undoubtedly agree that where there is war, there is no return. “Owen's method of dramatic description seeks to make the physical and psychological suffering of the war more vivid to the reader, who is invited to share the eyewitness perspective of the narrator.” (Bloom, 2002, pp. 14-16). The scenes that follow in Dulce et Decorum Este