Wilfred Owen was a poet during the 1st world war, he wrote many poems and all the poems have the same kind of meaning. They all state the physical and mental suffering of war. All the poems say that war is terrifying and is not an honour to die for your country. The way people lost their lives was horrific.

The poems that I have chose to write about are "Dulce et Decorum est", this means it is an honour to die for your country. When you read the poem and go through it you get the impression it is not on honour to die for your country. You get this impression because the whole poem is very negative towards the war. There the poet has nothing good to say about the war. The line "his hanging face, like a devils sick of sin" suggests that they have to watch their friends die in the battle, it also suggests that the war is worse than hell. The line "The old lie: Dulce et decorumest pro patria moria" means that the government lied to them, it wasn't an honour to die for your country.
Join now!


The other poem I chose was the, "send off", I chose this because it has the same kind of meaning as the first poem. The main purpose of writing this poem was to suggest that no one cares about their family going off to war. The line "to the sliding shed" suggests that no one knew that people were going off to war, and that the government were trying to keep the war a secret. A sliding shed means a little train station down an alleyway. And no one knew that it was there. In the poem the ...

This is a preview of the whole essay