dulche et decorum est

• "incurable sores on innocent tongues"
• "men marched asleep"
• "an ecstasy of fumbling"
• "in all my dreams, before my helpless sight"
• "come gargling from the froth corrupted lungs"
• the title represents it is a sweet and fitting thing to die for your country in latin
• the themes in this poem are war and loss
• Wilfred Owen was a soldier
• the gas references in the poem is mustard gas that was used in ww1
• Owen does not find war noble he finds it brutal
• "bent double, like old beggars under sacks"
• "gas shells dropping softly behind"
• "he plunges at me guttering, choking, drowning"