Dulce Et Decorum Est
The poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was written around 1917. It is about men at war and explains to us how it felt and what actually happened during war.
I remember the day I woke up around 7am and I went downstairs to read my newspaper and eat my breakfast, while is was reading my paper I heard loads of people running and shouting, there were so many people I could feel the floor shaking. I opened my door and saw a big crowd run past me , on of them stopped because he was out of breath and asked me for a glass of water, I welcomed him in and I asked him what all those people were running for he told me that they were all going the billeting office to sign up for the army to fight in the war. I realised what a pride and possession that this could have been for fighting in the war for my country and I would have been known a hero if I went to war, I saw all the propaganda posters around and they all made us feel that we would be a hero if we joined the army and one of the posters which all fathers took seriously was the one which said ‘daddy what did you do in the war’. I thought if I didn’t join the war my children would have branded me a coward for not taking part in the war. I told the man to wait right there while I went upstairs to get myself changed, I came down and we set off to the billeting office to go and get signed up for the army. On the way I got to know the man his name was Gilberto and was a very nice man, he was telling me how his wife recently past away and how depressed he was at that time but now he had moved on, on the way we discussed a lot of things and got to know him very well we were good friends just from what had happened today. We finally got to the billeting office and we were so amazed at how big the queues were, they went all the way down to the bottom of the road. We finally got in and had been check and we were both able to join, we were very happy at that moment until the next couple of days came and we were off to war.
