Dulce et decourum est

• “Bent double, like old beggars”

  ”knock-kneed, coughing like hags“
• “Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!
• “Under a green sea, I saw him drowning”
• “In all my dreams… guttering, chocking, drowning
• “Froth-corrupted lungs”
• “You would not tell me with such high Zest

  The old lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori“
• The poem Dulce er decorum est, written by Wilfred Owen, is about the a group of soldiers who were ambushed by a chlorine gas attack.
• There is a continuous use of graphic imagery in the poem which is Owen trying to present to gruesome and brutal reality of war and how it is not anything like the government has claimed it to be in all of the propaganda.
• The poem presents the themes of : THE EFFECTS OF WAR & PAIN AND SUFFERING.