DULCE ET DECORUM EST Wilfred Owen he destroys the image of pride soldiers ' Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,'

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DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Wilfred Owen he destroys the image of pride soldiers

' Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,'

This makes you picture strong, powerful soldiers bent over tired, and under these big rucksacks that weigh pounds. Owen puts this in the poem to show volunteer what they are in for, and that its not just fun and a 'game' that Jessie Pope suggest in her poem 'Who's for the game?'

Owens states that the soldiers would carry on whatever,

'But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame: all blind'

That suggest that whatever happen to them they carried on even if they were hurt going blind, or going lame. Owen uses this to show people how hard it was and that it was not fun to be fighting.

The soldiers were tired.

'Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of tired, outstripped Five-nines that dropped behind.'

Owen is saying that they got so tired they couldn't even hear the big artillery fire behind them. He also uses personification saying the 'outstripped Five-nines' saying that even they were tired like the men who were firing them.
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After the first paragraph Wilfred Owen talks about the war as a scary place were no-one really wanted to be. He uses many types of writing styles to make the reader more involved and so they can picture what is happening easier

Gas bombs are dropped and there's real panic

'An ecstasy of fumbling,

fitting the clumsy helmets just in time.'

This tells us that when gas bombs were seen there was a panic and men were trying so hard to get there 'clumsy helmets' on. When Owen says clumsy helmets he is probably ...

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