Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est

The depth of every line is full of sensory detail that even though it was a poem, every word can become a scenario in the readers mind. In Dulce et Decorum Est, two powerful lines intrigued me to picture myself using my five senses. “Men marched asleep,” such a simple line with an eclectic amount of meanings. This line shows how men always had to have an eye open whilst they slept or how their exhaustion may have felt as if they were sleepwalking during their marching routines. In addition, “His hanging face…if you could hear… gargling… obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud,” Owen resembles cancer to the gas poison because of how it crept up on them and slowly started taking their lives. This particular line in the poem shows vividly how that