Wilfred Owen's 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'
World War I, the most savage altercation at the time, is depicted with such vivid imagery in Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” that it makes it difficult for one decerne this poem from a personal experience. This poem draws its unfiltered power from Owen’s brutal personal experience as an infantryman. Owens’ powerful imagery conjugated with the personal allusions of the speaker proves to the reader how a different point of view can twist someone’s reality.
In Owen’s poem, he frequently uses words that create a powerful image in the reader’s mind; and, is portrayed throughout all the stanzas. Powerful imagery is something many authors use to help depict a certain situation they would like to describe in further detail. In “Dulce et Decorum Est”
there is a considerable amount of factors that support this thought. In the last stanza Owen states, “ If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,” (lines 21 & 22). These lines alone represent how the speaker realizes the true brutality that surrounds him when one of his comrades killed by mustard gas.
Furthermore Owen uses allusions to help further his theme of a different point of view can change someone’s perception
In Owen’s poem, he frequently uses words that create a powerful image in the reader’s mind; and, is portrayed throughout all the stanzas. Powerful imagery is something many authors use to help depict a certain situation they would like to describe in further detail. In “Dulce et Decorum Est”
there is a considerable amount of factors that support this thought. In the last stanza Owen states, “ If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,” (lines 21 & 22). These lines alone represent how the speaker realizes the true brutality that surrounds him when one of his comrades killed by mustard gas.
Furthermore Owen uses allusions to help further his theme of a different point of view can change someone’s perception