Dulce et Decurm est is about a group of soldiers on their way back from a battle. They are exhausted and are hurt all over but they carry on walking. Some with no shoes, then they are hit by a gas attack all but one had but one had got his gas mask on. All they can do was watch their fellow soldier cringing in pain as he drowning in his bodily juices.

Owen used this poem to make us think about how the war was not sweet or honourable. To die as the title implies but it is devastating, futile and gets us now the way he does this by using powerful verbs and alliteration, which builds a picture of the horrors in your mind of what has happened and what the soldiers have seen.

The language in Dulce et Decurm est shows the devastation and futility of war for example ‘men marches asleep many had lost their boots but limped on blood shot’ this mean that they are coming back from war and are walking barefooted in pain, some half asleep and in shock from the horror despite all of this they walk on!

Upon reading this poem I felt disheartened for all those who perished in the sorrow they call war.