dulce et decorum est

• what poetic devices

  is in dulce et decorum est

  hyperbole

  onomatopoeia

  simile
• key quotes with similes in dulce et decorum est

  "bent double like old beggars under sacks"

  "coughing like hags "

  "floundering like a man in fire or lime"

  "as under a green sea i saw him drowning"

  "his hanging face like a devils sick of skin "

  "bitter as the cud of vile"

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• key quotes with hyperbole (dulce et decorum est)

  "men marched asleep"

  "drunk with fatuige"
• key quotes with onomatopoeia 


  "in all my dreams before my helpless sights he plunges at me guttering choking drowning"

  "behind the wagon we flung him in "
• key quotes


  to children ardent for some desperate glory the old lie dulce et decorum est pro patria morill

  (it is sweet and right to die for your country )
• who wrote dulce et decorum est

  wilfred owen