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Dulce et Decorum est Sammie Whyte The bloody slaughter and sheer injustice of World War One was shrouded in the lies and misconceptions of a glorious heroic war. Back in Britain, far away from the dropping shells and continuous machine gun fire, propaganda about the wonderful deeds happening out on the front line was being fed out to the public through a government controlled media. Many young men - little more than boys - were encouraged to sign up to fight for a war that in reality was little more than a mass slaughter. One way that the utter devastation and unimaginable extent of death, could pass through the censored media to the mis-led public was through poets like Wilfred Owen who had fought on the front line. Arguably Owen's best piece, if not the best piece of literature to result from such a disaster, Dulce et Decorum est portrays the...

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