Dulce Et Decorum Est Essays

For each of the texts, analyse how links between the beginning and end helped you understand a main theme or issue. The World War One poet, Wilfred Owen, wrote two poems named ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ and ‘Disabled’. The main themes running throughout both poems are that of the pain and worthlessness of war, and […]

Doomed Youth? “Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori”. A noble sentiment, taken from a poem by Horace, and one which was taken as a veritable truth by virtually every man, woman and child in the early years of twentieth century Britain. The memories of Britain’s last conflict, the Boer War, had faded. Victoria’s reign […]

Although both ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Who’s for the Game’ were written during the great war. both verse form had opposing position points. Both Wilfred Owen and Jessie Pope were inspired to compose due to the war but Wilfred Owen fought in the western forepart while Jessie Pope stayed in the comfort of the […]

The poems “In Flanders Fields” by John McCrae and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen are both magnificent poems that are based on the same theme, from the same time period and written in similar circumstances. However, these two poems present such different points of view. Both John McCrae and Wilfred Owen were poets […]

One is to think of war as one of the most honorable and noble services that a man can attend to for his country, it is seen as one of the most heroic ways to die for the best cause. The idea of this is stripped down and made a complete mockery of throughout both […]

Both poems are different approaches of war describing the horrors of it in different ways. One is dealing with the moment of death while the other one is about the philosophical ideas after a death opposed to showing the death. The sun is the central issue in the first line of Futility. It says, “Move […]

The Fist World War was an exciting adventure for many people. Many young men considered it to be their duty to fight for their country. Going to war for many individuals was a portrayal of their bravery and loyalty. One poet- H. Begbie in his poem, Fall In mentions the freedom, joy and fullness of […]

Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire in 1893. He went to school at the Birkenhead Institute in Liverpool and studied at London University. From a young age he always wanted to be a poet. He suffered a severe illness then travelled to France due to health reasons. There he became a tutor in Bordeaux. He […]

Both poems describe the horrors and tragedy that became the norm to so many solders or the First World War. What life was like in the trenches, what it was like to see so many suffering and dying people, and what it was like to know you are going to die and never see your […]

The four poems that I am going to study are:> ‘The dead beat’> ‘Mental cases.’> ‘Dulce et decorum est,’> ‘Inspection,’Wilfred Owen was born in Owestry, Shropshire; he was the son of a railway worker. He came under the influence of contemporary French poetry. He enlisted in 1915 becoming a second lieutenant of the Manchester regiment. […]

I find that ‘Disabled’ and ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ make me feel sympathy for the victims of war because: – Dulce describes the awful conditions that the soldiers are in; it describes the suffering that they’re going through. The second line sums this up pretty well: “Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge”. The […]

This is a line taken from a draft war poem by Wilfred Owen written before he realised the true horror and reality of war; entitled ‘The ballad of Peace and War’. This poem contrasted strangely with his later work, when he wrote of how the fake glamour of war leads to unbelievable suffering. As a […]

In every single war, we know that there are enemies, enemies so we have people to blame. It is obvious that we should blame the enemies. Who would not? So why, in the First World War poetry, were the Germans not blamed as much as they should have been? Poems such as “Dulce et decorum […]

The poems I am studying span a period from 1854 – 1917; over 60 years in history. Each poem is written at the time of the war so each writer understood what was happening and the effect the war created, reflecting accurately a point of view prevalent at that time in history. Dulce et Decorum […]

In both ‘The Ghost Road’ and ‘The Poems of Wilfred Owen’, one sees the brutal effects of the First World War through the experiences of those directly involved, the soldiers. They suffered immensely, from shell shock, paralysis and also loneliness, and homesickness. In Pat Barkers ‘The Ghost Road’, she concentrates mainly on two characters’ experiences, […]

I have put together two pieces of poetry today, both at different times. The first one is Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, Dulce Et Decorum Est is said to be the turning point in war poetry as it was the first poem to challenge the war ideology of the time. The second poem […]

Dulce et Decorum Est is about a World War One soldier’s horrific experiences on and off the battle field. This soldier witnessed a comrade die in a gas attack and was mentally scarred. He, after enduring the pain and harsh realities of war, challenges Horace’s old saying; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.The first […]

In the following essay I will be comparing and analysing the poet’s attitudes to death. I intend to investigate the structures and the language utilised by the poets. I will analyse four poems, ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ (Wilfred Owen), ‘The Leveller’ (Robert Graves), ‘The Death-Bed’ (Siegfried Sassoon) and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ (Wilfred Owen). Firstly […]

If Wilfred Owen’s war poetry had one main aim, it would be to expose “the old lie”: that war is always a good and justified thing and that it is a good thing to die for one’s country. Owen had experienced first hand the horrors and tragedies of the First World War, so he inevitably […]

The two poems that I have chosen to compare and contrast are Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen and War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy. These two poems were written over fifty years apart and yet still manage to convey a similar message, the unnecessary suffering to those involved in war and the ignorance […]

I am going to discuss the changing attitudes to war by two World War One poets, by comparing their poems. I have chosen to compare the poems “Dulce et Decorum est” by Wilfred Owen, which was written between 1925-1918. The other poem is “The Soldier” written by Rupert Brooke in 1915. Owen describes war as […]

During and before the First World War, between the year 1914 and 1918, there were many recruitment banners, recruitment poems, and many other ways to encourage young men to go to war. When the war began in August 1914, Britain relied only on a small professional force, unlike most other European and Global countries that […]