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World War I Poetry Question: Compare and contrast Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon's poetry. Comment on similes, imagery and style in all poems. Dulce et Decorum Est means "It is sweet and meat to die for one's country." In the first stanza, Wilfred Owen is describing how soldiers are walking in terrible conditions despite the fact that they are dying. In this stanza, Owen uses two similes which are, "Bent double like old beggars under sacks." This creates an image in our mind of soldiers who are hunched and are walking like old men who are very sick. Another main simile in the first stanza is, "Coughing like hags." This gives me the image of soldiers coughing very badly. In the second stanza, Owen is describing the urgency of the scene and moves the poem from the describing of the soldiers to the battlefield. Again, there are two similes in this stanza which are,...

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