Dulce et Decorum Est
Themes
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War
Pain and suffering
Death and loss
The wasted young
Nature
War
Death and loss
Nature
The wasted young
Pain and suffering
Wilfred Owen witnessed the battle ground firsthand
There is suffering, soldiers die of attack from chlorine gas
The narrator is painting a negative view of those who say "It is right and honourable to die for your country"- giving the reality of how they actually died
The Soldier
War, Death
Manhunt
Pain and Suffering, War
Mametz Wood
War, the Wasted Youth, Nature
A Wife in London
Death and Loss, War
"Drunk with fatigue"
"Drowning"
"Obscene as Cancer"
"Bent Double"
"guttering, choking, drowning"
"froth-corrupted"
"Writhing"
"hoots"
"fire or lime"
"Knock-kneed"
"blood-shod"
"like hags"
"Quick, boys"
"Children"
"like old beggars"
"Haunting flares"
"Men marched asleep"
"Behind the wagon we flung him in"
"Devil's sick of sin"
"The old lie; Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
"Distant rest"
"An ecstasy of fumbling"
"drowning"
"Before my helpless sight"
"If you could hear"
"All went lame; All blind"
"In all my dreams"