The Poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" is an incredible poem written by Wilfred owen, projecting the terrible and utterly devastating way war affects people. It displays a Group of soldiers Marching through the night trying to get a camp where the weary and wounded can get some days rest, until they suddenly get attacked with gas grenades, were all but one manage to put on there gasmasks before dying a horrible death. The speakers use …showed first 75 words of 1049 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1049 total…a gas grenade and one who does not manage to put on his gas mask in time, dies so revoltingly in a blood bath that one cannot forget such socking images. By creating this image I think the Author has achieved his goal also stating "the old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" which to shows how the truth is that it is certainly not good or righteous to die for your country.