snaith//Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
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- Created on: 21-04-17 14:25
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- Dulce Et Decorum Est
- Content
- Soldier Struggling in war
- Almost describing his experiences
- 'In all my dreams'
- 'we turned our backs'
- 'I saw him drowning'
- Metaphor
- 'My friend'
- Irony
- Talking to society
- Floating between life and death
- Facing common war problems - tiredness, gas, gunshots and bombs
- Bomb- 'gas shells'
- Tiredness- 'like old beggars'
- Tiredness- 'drunk with fatigue'
- Gas- 'misty panes', 'green sea'
- Euphamism
- Gunshots- 'haunting flares'
- Personification
- Attitude
- Owen's attitude was to make his poem emotional and understandable
- 'My friend'
- Irony
- Talking to society
- 'Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori'
- It is a kind and honourable thing to die for ones country
- The only thing keeping the soldiers going
- 'You would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory'
- Lies
- Children don't know the truth of war and think it will be easy.
- Soldiers who survive cannot tell the truth of war
- 'My friend'
- At first he is creating a calm but horrifying scene then develops into anger with society.
- Owen's attitude was to make his poem emotional and understandable
- Mood and Emotion
- Dishearted
- Defeated
- Bitter and ill
- Sarcasm
- 'My friend'
- Innocence
- 'to children ardent for some desperate glory'
- Language
- Irony
- 'My friend'
- Metaphor
- 'I saw him drowning'
- 'Innocent tongues'
- Euphemism
- 'green sea'
- 'distant rest'
- Repetition
- 'Gas! Gas!'
- Personification
- 'Haunting flares'
- Conotations
- Oxymorons
- 'Dropping softly behind'
- Irony
- Social Context
- World War 1
- Mustard Gas
- 'Gas! Gas!'
- Damaging Effects
- Propaganda
- Content
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