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Compare two poems by Wilfred Owen, which make you feel sympathy for people involved in war. Which do you find the more effective? I find that 'Disabled' and 'Dulce et Decorum est' make me feel sympathy for the victims of war because: - Dulce describes the awful conditions that the soldiers are in; it describes the suffering that they're going through. The second line sums this up pretty well: "Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge". The poem's style is one of pity and despair. Owen makes you feel sorry for the victims of war, his style is to depict gruesome images, like "obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud", cancer is in many cases an incurable disease, and cud is what cow's chew on. He creates a vivid sense of distress and despair in the front line. He's trying to put others off being so hasty in signing...

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