Wilfred Owen’s poem, “Dulce et Decorum est”,
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How do various elements of the work - plot, character, point of view, setting, tone, diction, images, symbol, and so on - reinforce its meanings? John Stuart Mill once said: "War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feelings which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." War is done by trust in power; one cannot emphasize that enough. When one gives in to the wrath of the government in charge of producing such wars, it is the end for them, and the end for their families. It is the...


