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Essay: poem commentary: "Dolce et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen In the poem "Dolce et Decorum est", Wilfred Owen relates an extremely powerful and intense episode of the First World War. As an English army officer, he experienced at first hand the harsh, inhuman and truly unbearable conditions this war imposed on the soldiers. He depicts in very crude, simple and powerful words the gruesome reality of the war: it kills indiscriminately, without warning, terrified men drunken with fatigue, prisoners of the dirt and sludge. The poem is structured in 3 paragraphs. The first paragraph sets the scene: it describes a group of soldiers looking like beggars, bent in two from exhaustion, struggling to advance in the mud. They are trying to reach a camp away from the front line where they would be able to rest. The reader is drawn in this situation to the point where he...

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