Dulce Et Decorum Est Essays

These two poems have a lot of similarities and differences between them. “Charge of the Light Brigade” is a pro war poem and shows admiration for the young men, it is a third person narrative based on the Crimean war from 1854-1856. “Dulce et Decorum est” shows concern for the men that are risking their […]

Wilfred Owen clearly disagrees with the notion that war is honorable, as suggested by the title “Dulce et Decorum Est.” The first line of the poem portrays a sense of disgust towards the men and the harsh conditions they face in the trenches. Owen’s intention is to emphasize his lack of belief in the honor […]

It is quite possible that never have two poems offered such contrasting opinions on one subject as Dulce et Decorum Est and The Soldier. And the subject, war, is their only connection. Whether or not it is right to die for your country, both poets are vehement in their convictions. It is through the various […]

It is terribly ironic that in the current international crisis over war I may be analysing two pieces with very contrasting views on the subject. Where Shakespeare glorifies the art of war and the honour surrounding it, Owen devalues a respected Latin phrase, which tells of the honour of war. I will first interpret Owen’s […]

Both Homer and Owen, in their poems present arguments about the death of a soldier. However in Homers poem it appears he is engaging the writer with a much more emotional approach than that of Owens. He presents the soldiers as “great fighters” and “brave souls”. In contrast, we see in Owens poem, a typical […]

Wilfred Owen is the narrator of ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’, a poem aimed at the people who were not actively involved in the war, fighting on the bloody battlefields, and therefore do not have first-hand experience of the horrors. He is writing from a period of time after the war, looking back in retrospect and […]

It seems that war in society is inevitable – for long as it has been historically documented, war has always been present. Although the tactics by which wars have been fought and won have developed throughout the ages, the outcome has always remained the same – with the untimely deaths of many men. It is […]

Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire. He was a son of a railway worker and poetry had been encourage by his mother since boyhood. Owen returned to France in August 1918 and won the Military Cross in September. He was sadly killed on the 4th of November 1918, one week before the […]

In the First World War people wanted the young men to go to war, but no-one really knew about conditions of the fighting in the war. Wilfred Owen was one of the people who wanted to tell the public what war was really was like. He tried to do that through his poetry. One of […]

In 1798 a new era began in English poetry called the Romantic age. This age provoked the thinking of new radical ideas and thoughts and the writing of these ideas in poems. The poets included Samuel T Coleridge, Alfred Lord Tennyson and William Wordsworth. Some of their ideas and thoughts include: 1) Rebellion against tyrannical […]

The poems ‘Dulce et decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen and ‘The charge of the Light Brigade’ both focus on war, yet they express different themes and ideas. The former provides a vivid depiction of the Crimean War and the Battle at Balaklava while the latter gives a direct narrative of World War One’s terrifying experiences. […]

Despite both ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’ depicting the downfall of soldiers in battle, they each convey this event uniquely. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est,’ is deeply based on the experiences from World War I as narrated by Wilfred Owen, who shares his personal struggles and incidents during the conflict. […]

The First World War served as undeniable evidence that the 19th century had truly come to an end. The traumatic experiences of this conflict deeply affected the mentality of the English people and marked a significant shift in their perception of death and honor. The previously prevalent sentimentality of Victorian poets, who spoke about these […]

Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are both poets who fought for England in the First World War and both base their poetic material almost entirely on the situation they were in. However, distinct differences can be seen in their individual approaches to their common theme of war. An example of this difference can be seen […]

Both of the poems named above are about war. They are on the different aspects of war from two peoples’ point of view. ‘Joining the Colours’ is by Katherine Tynan, a woman who did not go to war and stayed at home. She did not know what life was like in battle but wrote her […]

‘The old lie’ was the traditional view of war, which is honourable, glorious and heroic to fight and die for your country. During the time when Tennyson wrote his poem, ‘The charge of the light brigade’ (1854), everyone felt that dying for your country in action was honourable. But this view of war slowly changed […]

The Poems “Who’s for the Game” written by Jessie Pope and “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen were written during World War 1, both of these poems have different views on the War. Jessie Pope was born in 1870 and died in 1941 she was best known for her World War 1 poems but […]

The poem ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ was composed by Wilfred Owen and published during the war, shortly before he lost his life in battle. The poem itself possesses bitterness and irony, conveying the message that war lacks glamour, and believing that it is a cause for celebration is to disregard the fallen soldiers. The title […]

It is unusual at this time when war is looming in Iraq that we would be comparing a War Poem and speech King Henry V made before the battle of Agincourt. Wilfred Owen said, “The Poetry is in the Pity. ” The main purpose of his poems was to show people the reality of war, […]

In the following essay I will be comparing two poems on war. Of the poems I have studied, I have chosen, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” written by Alfred Lord Tennyson in the 1800’s, and “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, written after the first World War in 1914. Both poems deal with […]

The purpose of this essay is to compare and discuss three poems from the Great War. Each poem is written by a different author: ‘In Memoriam’ by F. A. Mackintosh, ‘Death Bed’ by Siegfried Sassoon, and ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ by Wilfred Owen. Initially, I’ll examine F. A. Mackintosh’s poem ‘In Memoriam’. The title suggests […]

Examine the differing viewpoints on war presented in the poems “Fall In,” “The Soldier,” and “Dulce et Decorum Est”, all of which are centered around World War 1. This task will involve exploring the different viewpoints on war as presented in Harold Begbie’s ‘Fall In’, Rupert Brooke’s ‘The Soldier’ and Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum […]