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Compare and Contrast the Poems: Dulce et Decorum Est and Refugee Blues Both poems, 'Dulce et Decorum Est' and 'Refugee Blues;' are about related subjects. 'Dulce et Decorum Est' is a soldier's account of an attack of gas shells and 'Refugee Blues' is about the feelings of a Jewish man in Germany during the Second World Was. Both these poems are linked to war. The main view in 'Dulce et Decorum Est' is that war is neither glorius nor glorifying. Wilfred Owen writes, 'Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through the sludge.' This proves that was not 'one patriotic march'. The choice of portraying the marching soldiers coughing hags does not make soldiers seem strong and brave. It makes them seem sickly, feeble and old. Soldiers are looked upon as the fittest and healthiest of people, Wilfred Owen is showing that war can ruin even the strongest of people. Another quote...

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