The poem " Dulce et Decorum Est " by Wilfred Owen
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Dulce et Decorum Est The poem " Dulce et Decorum Est " by Wilfred Owen is a poem describing a terrifying aspect of the horror and misery of war. The poem describes to me an extremely graphic image of the First World War; one of which I am sure will stay with me for quite some time. One of the reasons the theme of this poem was made memorable to me was that it was easy for me to imagine the frontline due to the traumatic, graphic metaphors the poet " throws " in my mind, " obscene as cancer ". Another way this poem is made memorable to me is how the author conveys an image of how tired they are by saying how the " men marched asleep ". This shows the reader how tired the men are due to the time which they have been sent fighting. In...


