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    The poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" describes the brutal realities of war that soldiers faced, especially the effects of gas attacks. It aims to counter pro-war propaganda by vividly depicting a soldier "guttering, choking, drowning" from inhaling poison gas in a way meant to shock readers. The poem uses powerful imagery like comparing the soldier's death to cancer and showing young soldiers "bent double" like crippled old men to drive home how war aged and disfigured men prematurely. It concludes the stanzas abruptly to mirror the suddenness of the soldier's death from the gas attack.

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    The poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" describes the brutal realities of war that soldiers faced, especially the effects of gas attacks. It aims to counter pro-war propaganda by vividly depicting a soldier "guttering, choking, drowning" from inhaling poison gas in a way meant to shock readers. The poem uses powerful imagery like comparing the soldier's death to cancer and showing young soldiers "bent double" like crippled old men to drive home how war aged and disfigured men prematurely. It concludes the stanzas abruptly to mirror the suddenness of the soldier's death from the gas attack.

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    The poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" describes the brutal realities of war that soldiers faced, especially the effects of gas attacks. It aims to counter pro-war propaganda by vividly depicting a soldier "guttering, choking, drowning" from inhaling poison gas in a way meant to shock readers. The poem uses powerful imagery like comparing the soldier's death to cancer and showing young soldiers "bent double" like crippled old men to drive home how war aged and disfigured men prematurely. It concludes the stanzas abruptly to mirror the suddenness of the soldier's death from the gas attack.

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    Dulce Et Decorum Est

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    The poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" describes the brutal realities of war that soldiers faced, especially the effects of gas attacks. It aims to counter pro-war propaganda by vividly depicting a soldier "guttering, choking, drowning" from inhaling poison gas in a way meant to shock readers. The poem uses powerful imagery like comparing the soldier's death to cancer and showing young soldiers "bent double" like crippled old men to drive home how war aged and disfigured men prematurely. It concludes the stanzas abruptly to mirror the suddenness of the soldier's death from the gas attack.

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    Dulce Et Decorum

    Est

    About the poem


    It is about soldiers being gassed and the
    brutality of war. The poem fight against
    propaganda and shows the truths and
    reality of war.
    Key themes include; War, Death, Suffering, Lies

    QUOTES

    guttering, choking, drowning.


    Tripling, this shows the struggle and continued torment of
    the soldier. Shows the reader how horrific it is.
    Hard hitting, violent vocabulary. Echoes the violence that
    the soldiers faced.
    Imagery, of sea and drowning. A really horrific way to die.
    Submerged by death and chocked by the poisonous gas.
    End stopped line, to show that he has suddenly passed. An
    abrupt end to his life.

    Obscene as cancer bitter as the


    cud
    Imagery of a harrowing death on the front lines.
    Comparison to cancer shows how lethal and horrific the
    death is and how at the time it was futile to try and cure
    it.
    bitter harsh, ugly and sour(?)
    obscene shows how offensive the deaths at war where
    and also how immoral . How the weapons disfigured
    soldiers was disgusting.

    Bent double, like old beggars


    under sacks
    Juxtaposition comparing young boys to old crippled men
    Imagery pitiful, disfigured, desperate
    Affects of war aged the young and made them mature too
    early

    Come gargling from the froth


    corrupt lungs
    Corrupt Diseased, infected and contaminated.
    Dramatic word
    Gruesome and grotesque imagery. Foreign substance.
    Your lungs are full of this disgusting poison.
    Unjust

    STRUCTURE

    The stanzas are random and mirror the chaos that is


    within the poem
    There are rhyming couplets such as sacks and backs.
    This creates a rhythmic structure that mirrors the soldiers
    trudging through the trenches.
    The lines 15-16 are separate from the rest of the poem
    this shows their importance and the significance of the
    events
    There is also a full stop at the end of these lines
    representing the abrupt death of the unfortunate soldier

    HISTORICAL CONTEXT

    Wilfred Owen was a soldier and wrote his poems to show


    the truth about war and unveil the horrific events
    He did this to protect the young men who made the choice
    to sign up for war and risked their lives.
    He wanted to prevent pro-war propaganda

    COMPARISON

    Both Dulce and Manhunt, are trying to ward off people from going to

    war.
    Both poems show the effects of war.
    Manhunt has 2 lines every stanza this shows a move controlled
    structure than Dulce as if replaying the events instead of being
    involved in the mess of war like Dulce.
    In Dulce everything happens all at once whereas in Manhunt it is
    slow and calm, this shows the calm after the storm of war.
    Manhunt shows the after and long term effects of war whereas Dulce
    shows the immediate and more sudden effects of war.
    Manhunt is a much more modern view of war and slightly naive
    compared to the other first hand view from an actual soldier in Dulce.
    Both show the injuries and death associated with war and how
    comrades, friends and family are effected.

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