snaith//Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

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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
      • At first he is creating a calm but horrifying scene then develops into anger with society.
    • 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'
    • Social Context
      • World War 1
      • Mustard Gas
        • 'Gas! Gas!'
      • Damaging Effects
      • Propaganda

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loved it helped me so much thanks getrevising

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