Dulce Et Decorum Est Commentary

Dulce Et Decorum Est CommentaryDulce et decorum est is a famous anti- fight poet written by Wilfred Owen in 1917, during the WWI. It portrays war as a brutal and dehu existenceizing experience by utilizing a number of horrific, depressed physiqueries effectively. This poem is based on a quotation from a Latin poem, Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, which means It is sweet and proper to die for ones country. However, at that spotlight is absolutely nothing in the actual poem that is sweet, nor is thither each description that associates directly to its title. The poem is ironic e very(prenominal)y dedicated to Jessie Pope, a childrens h ancient writer and a poet known to write poems that deliver patriotic messages. It besides objurgates the media that propagated the innocent soldiers for attempting ignoble political maneuvers, and also those who glorify war without every just purpose. The poem corporation be divided roughly into trinity sections the soldiers leaving the bailiwick a scenery of the soldiers suffering from an unexpected muff attack and a blistering criticism against those who glorifies these soldiers.The first stanza describes how the soldiers be ment in ally and physically distressed from the brutal and horrifying experiences of war. It mainly foc wonts on the discomforts and grieves of the soldiers who be in desperate need of medical supplies and attention. Wilfred Owen draws a sharp oppose between these old war-stricken soldiers described as Old beggars low sacks and the glorious and virile images tribe tend to have against soldiers. This stanza clearly highlights the fact that they argon NOT marching towards the battlefield with patriotic spirit, simply instead trudging exhaustingly deal Hags who argon completely worn out and mutated. They march by putt forth all the little strength left in them and base on balls Knock-kneed so that they can at least keep on moving forward. Many have lost their boots from cursing thro ugh slime, and in retreat from warfargon, some drag their feet, shod in their own livestock with desperate need of restorey from the accumulated fatigue.The poem consist a number of 28 lines, and has a convectional rhyming structure. It engagements full rhymes much(prenominal) as sack and back, sludge and trudge, boots and hoots, and so on. The rhyme scheme is in pick groups of four, ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN. However, the stanzas are crushed up irregularly into 8, 6, 2, 12 lines, and are not presented as quatrains. In the first section, with a stanza of 8 lines, an octave which essentially explains the environmental conditions and the deplorable situations the soldiers are in, and one of six, a sestet,, it can be assumed to be an Petrarchan sonnet, although it is not tenacious to the classical form since Wilfred Owen does not seem to purely adhere to the actual rhyme scheme.The poem starts transfer with an slow whole step, creating an ambience of dismay and de jection by utilizing words such as Sludge and Trudge. Owens illustrative use of mental imaging here allows us to picture and understand the poor environmental and physical conditions they are in. It shows how the soldiers are not merely tired, that that they are coming close to losing all the hopes they may have had for their bright future. A very good use of simile can be seen in the first verse where the soldiers are described to be old, crippled reprobates, who are Bent double, like old beggars under sacks / knock need, coughing like hags, even though many must have been very young. By saying so, Owen effectively breaks the widely accepted image of soldiers being brave, patriotic and super motivated. Another matter to term that deserves a mention here is Distant rest which can be interpreted in two ways one variation may simply mean to have a long-awaited rest to recover from exhaustion, but it also implicitly refers to Rest In Peace as a destiny for many engaged in war.Th e endorsement stanza prompts the readers to an brusk alarm of danger. Gas, GAS Quick, boys Just as the boys were heading for a quiescence of mind by retreating from the front line, splash shells drop beside them. As shortly as they hear the warning, the soldiers begin to hastily wear their Clumsy helmets to have their own lives in ecstasy of fumbling. Terrible and shocking images of the accelerator pedal attack are highlighted by focusing on the unfortunate one who does not get to wear the robe in time and is slowly but surely poisoned to death. The notion of lung burning And floundering like a man on elicit or lime creates a terrifying image of the man writhing and suffering from the symptoms of intoxication.The poem consist a number of 28 lines, and has a convectional rhyming structure. It uses full rhymes such as sack and back, sludge and trudge, boots and hoots, and so on. The rhyme scheme is in alternative groups of four, ABAB CDCD EFEF GHGH IJIJ KLKL MNMN. However, the stanzas are broken up irregularly into 8, 6, 2, 12 lines, and are not presented as quatrains. In the first section, with a stanza of 8 lines, an octave which basically explains the environmental conditions and the deplorable situations the soldiers are in, and one of six, a sestet,, it can be assumed to be an Petrarchan sonnet, although it is not tenacious to the classical form since Wilfred Owen does not seem to strictly adhere to the actual rhyme scheme.Owen again makes uses of similes to describe the affect the flub attack is making to the man. And floundering like a man n fire or lime. Also capital letters and exclamation marks are holdd as accents to emphasize the common whiz of urgency and panic, and to make the image even more graphical. GAS Gas Quick, boys An ecstasy of fumbling. He by choice uses the word ecstasy, which usually means to be rapturous, to dramatize the overflowing maven of panic and fear the soldiers are in. Owen applies words such as floundering, bu ngling and stumbling not only to pace up the poem, but to communicate the sense of emergency, and the chaotic turmoil the soldiers find themselves in. However, then there is a fast slowing down of pace led by the daunting imagery of fatal silence prevailing over the soldiers drowningunder the green ocean of poisonous gas. Also, there is a use of double entente seen here Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light / As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. Not only does the imagery of the green sea imply the luminous gas misting in the air, but it also portrays the view the soldiers see through the dim lenses of their gas masks. The ones who are protectively accoutered in mask passively observe the demeanor of the unprotected relentlessly fading awayThe two lines In all my dreams before my helpless sight and He plunges at me, guttering, chocking, drowning are thoughtfully separated to show all those who believe blindly that war in reality is not about brevity or winning or for anyones country but is simply about survival and an desperate overleap from an overwhelming fear of becoming crippled both physically and mentally. Owen continues to utilize metaphors linked to sleep walking, dreams and nightmares, to assert how terrible, and relentless the returning image precondition is. The helpless sight indicated here is describing the guilt feeling of how the speaker I is unable to help the gas-poisoned comrade. He enumerates continuously a number of verbs to emphasise the immediacy of the section, and to reiterate the unimaginable suffering of the comrade as he drowns deep in the green sea.And at finis, for the last stanza, Owen describes the soldiers death mask as a devils sick of sin, to implicate that an once innocent young person has fallen into the pitfall of hell. The last four lines here are very ironic and cynical, as if they are Wilfred Owens own words. The poem ends with an asseveration that Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, is a complet e lie, In the last verse, Owen, for the first time, employs the second person you to directly address us readers in an attempt to backwash us up to see the ugly reality of war that he unveils. In the phrase Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, Owen reminds the readers that these soldiers in the battlefield were also once the children ardent for some desperate glory, who were brainwashed to gift their lives in such a pitifully poor environment. In the last lines, his anger, ill feeling and strong sense of denunciation towards the absurdity of war are vividly expressed in a manner that is highly convincing to the readers not to let the old lie be passed on unnoticed to the next generation. My friend, you would not tell with such high disposition / To children ardent for some desperate gloryIn the last sentence, Wilfred Owen by choice does not apply the use of iambic meter, as if there is no meaning, or no point in making an effort to place the words within the proper metri cal structure, to emphasize his anger and sense of distrust towards the old lie in the most straightforward manner.Although the pace is still speedy, the word choices here become forthright and very striking, as if to emulate a war reporter with a doomed kernel uttering whatever comes up in his mind out of desperation. In this stanza, he graphically pictures the dreadful images of a man tormented by the gas attack, giving revolting descriptions related to body parts, which are horrifying and visually disturbing. And watch the white eyes writhing in his face / origination gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs. I assume the phrase is intended to stir the readers emotions as potently and shockingly as possible, by meaningfully describing the facial appearance of a soldier, who is normally stereotyped as a handsome and virile youth, flex into an gruesomely dehumanized face, as a result of the poisonous gas he could not help inhaling.What we observe from the poem is that Wilfred Ow en has been successful in employing various literary devices, to create the ghastly and horrifying images of the war. He implicates that war is brutal and vile, and completely contradicts the idea of how sweet and proper it is to die for ones country. He overall gives a very steady progression in the poem, in despite of the frightful imageries of the soldier suffering from the plaguing gas attack. In addition, Wilfred Owen makes use of irony to criticize not only Jessie Pope, but to all those people who believe warfare to be honoring and splendiferous tradition.