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"DULCE ET DECORUM EST" - Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen was an infantry man during the First World War, this poem is written from first hand experience, his aim was to end the glorification of war. He died a week before the war ended in 1918. "Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" translated in to English means it is right and fitting to die for your country. If someone is reading the poem for the first time learns of the English meaning of the title they would see this as a pro-war poem and that it represents the army in a good way. However this assumption could not be further from the truth. The opening lines show this, as any illusion about the glory of war is shattered. The description of the appearance of the men, their actions and they way they walk convey the tiredness and physical state that they are...

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