young strong
+ old tweak
hard
'
Alliteration -
> in
Propaganda to convince to
join soldiers beggarsIhags
,
men war
young
=
broken simile , =
for honour glory
+
(antithesis)
flares > rockets used to physically mentally +
broken by wa r
Translated It
-
illuminate battlefield
:
is sweet and honorable (to war '
die
'
ages the men
young
at
night for
your country)
haunting →soldiers disturbed Ironic Onomatopoeia - > shows bad conditions
highlights
→
poem horror not of wa ,
by (PTSD t
war glory
not
We unique
→ a
Shell shock)
Draws in the of people he wants to read
type experience ,
the poem a lot of people
distant rest = reserve line suffered
unreachable / miserable Ifar
Dulce et Decorum Est WILFRED OWEN
mid line full stop
-
rhythm -
slow ,
heavy jagged
'
-
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
anticipates attack
-
hard automated
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
=
m
( zombies / robots)
limped injured Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
-_ heavy difficult steps Hire
asleep basically asleep tired ,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
-
> so
bloodshod -
feet
covered in blood not all collective suffering =
boots
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
-
>
so tired
care
don't
lame Idea f) of
I 1
blind -
loss senses
metaphor drunk
But limped on, bloodshod. All went lame; all blind;
-
hoots bombs
dropping / I
=
swayingstaggered
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
=
= not aware of what is
happening ,
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
D= bombs in distance
everywhere War =
dramatic
fast i.
ironic →
usually very happy
pause introducing explanation
change in rhythm -
, urgent ,
drugs - ' trance ,
frantic out-of-body experience
personification helmet
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling, trying
>
clumsy something quickly
to do confused
-
, ,
unco ordinated -
not most efficient
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
sound -
soft → loud
moves from pain helpless screams
group → individual
, ,
drowning , frantic chalky white substance that can burn live tissue
movements are
trying
to
escape it
urgent , sore ,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, complete thought surprise
happening
can't
what is
,
, horror of
glass of helmet IPTSD And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime… long suffering screeching
'
ee
'
=
,
commenting on government's image drowning
of sea from inside
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
refusal to ,
of war
acknowledge brutality bodily ( fluids)
I Personal account of event
'
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
-
metaphor 1
green gas
=
sea
-
slows pace back down
, emphasises the
endless all
consuming dream-like state of
-
,
all dreams,
,
speaker helplessness
,
inescapable PTSD ,
can't do
usually dreams = nice now anything to help
metaphor candle
glitters when
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
, -
they been terrorised flame is
have
flickeringbecause it's
by wa r
extinguished
direct,
urgent desperate
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
'
,
tries to put reader in his
cannot understand the horrors bodies not respected so
position
of war if weren't there do more helpless , can 't
you
'
s
'
= resentment to
stifling effect of dreams
people ,
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace eyes
' flickering
= detached , life out
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
/
puts us into scene , will show -
devil -
loves sin , wa r is even too
us what happened much sin for him
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
1
1 I
long
'
suffering
i' =
extended sick → existence
questioning
.
face distorted =
sudden
'
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
1
movement of
face devil → wagon ,
disturbing terrifying ,
dying
1 1
emphasises
corrupted lungs
addresses audience 1 government
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
-
i
image of death government corrupted people
-
gruesome 's ideas
•
of war
cancer =
corrupted
body
cells ,attacks
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, bitter
gross
cud -
-
,
regurgitated
=
(lies of )
glory
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
can't undo what was done I + war
saying
'
chew the cud '
=
to talk
vile despicable
repulsive
=
innocent reflectively reflecting men sent
( on
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— , never return the
wa r )
tongues
to
can't speak , not allowed
same
talk about
horrors of soldiers couldn't
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
war '
speak but others do
sarcastic extreme enthusiasm
blame placedaccusatory
,
,
people who
To children ardent for some desperate glory, clingdesiring
on r
tell the old lie
onto
promise of honour , want to be
youth sought after in soldiers '
glorious
young fed lies , ,
gullible The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
,
fewer
syllables silence
'
- -
horrors c a n't
o'd -
used for centuries Pro patria mori. how futile expressed '
war
was
even be
capital L -
undeniable fact,
'
so
well known
many suffered + died because of
this
-
saying
only held
power because
Figures of speech
no one
opposed it
Punctuation
Sound devices
Pronoun shifts
Repetition
+ old tweak
hard
'
Alliteration -
> in
Propaganda to convince to
join soldiers beggarsIhags
,
men war
young
=
broken simile , =
for honour glory
+
(antithesis)
flares > rockets used to physically mentally +
broken by wa r
Translated It
-
illuminate battlefield
:
is sweet and honorable (to war '
die
'
ages the men
young
at
night for
your country)
haunting →soldiers disturbed Ironic Onomatopoeia - > shows bad conditions
highlights
→
poem horror not of wa ,
by (PTSD t
war glory
not
We unique
→ a
Shell shock)
Draws in the of people he wants to read
type experience ,
the poem a lot of people
distant rest = reserve line suffered
unreachable / miserable Ifar
Dulce et Decorum Est WILFRED OWEN
mid line full stop
-
rhythm -
slow ,
heavy jagged
'
-
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
anticipates attack
-
hard automated
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
=
m
( zombies / robots)
limped injured Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,
-_ heavy difficult steps Hire
asleep basically asleep tired ,
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
-
> so
bloodshod -
feet
covered in blood not all collective suffering =
boots
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,
-
>
so tired
care
don't
lame Idea f) of
I 1
blind -
loss senses
metaphor drunk
But limped on, bloodshod. All went lame; all blind;
-
hoots bombs
dropping / I
=
swayingstaggered
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
=
= not aware of what is
happening ,
Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.
D= bombs in distance
everywhere War =
dramatic
fast i.
ironic →
usually very happy
pause introducing explanation
change in rhythm -
, urgent ,
drugs - ' trance ,
frantic out-of-body experience
personification helmet
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling, trying
>
clumsy something quickly
to do confused
-
, ,
unco ordinated -
not most efficient
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,
sound -
soft → loud
moves from pain helpless screams
group → individual
, ,
drowning , frantic chalky white substance that can burn live tissue
movements are
trying
to
escape it
urgent , sore ,
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling, complete thought surprise
happening
can't
what is
,
, horror of
glass of helmet IPTSD And flound’ring like a man in fire or lime… long suffering screeching
'
ee
'
=
,
commenting on government's image drowning
of sea from inside
Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,
refusal to ,
of war
acknowledge brutality bodily ( fluids)
I Personal account of event
'
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
-
metaphor 1
green gas
=
sea
-
slows pace back down
, emphasises the
endless all
consuming dream-like state of
-
,
all dreams,
,
speaker helplessness
,
inescapable PTSD ,
can't do
usually dreams = nice now anything to help
metaphor candle
glitters when
In all my dreams before my helpless sight,
, -
they been terrorised flame is
have
flickeringbecause it's
by wa r
extinguished
direct,
urgent desperate
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
'
,
tries to put reader in his
cannot understand the horrors bodies not respected so
position
of war if weren't there do more helpless , can 't
you
'
s
'
= resentment to
stifling effect of dreams
people ,
If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace eyes
' flickering
= detached , life out
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
/
puts us into scene , will show -
devil -
loves sin , wa r is even too
us what happened much sin for him
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
1
1 I
long
'
suffering
i' =
extended sick → existence
questioning
.
face distorted =
sudden
'
His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin;
1
movement of
face devil → wagon ,
disturbing terrifying ,
dying
1 1
emphasises
corrupted lungs
addresses audience 1 government
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
-
i
image of death government corrupted people
-
gruesome 's ideas
•
of war
cancer =
corrupted
body
cells ,attacks
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, bitter
gross
cud -
-
,
regurgitated
=
(lies of )
glory
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
can't undo what was done I + war
saying
'
chew the cud '
=
to talk
vile despicable
repulsive
=
innocent reflectively reflecting men sent
( on
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— , never return the
wa r )
tongues
to
can't speak , not allowed
same
talk about
horrors of soldiers couldn't
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
war '
speak but others do
sarcastic extreme enthusiasm
blame placedaccusatory
,
,
people who
To children ardent for some desperate glory, clingdesiring
on r
tell the old lie
onto
promise of honour , want to be
youth sought after in soldiers '
glorious
young fed lies , ,
gullible The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
,
fewer
syllables silence
'
- -
horrors c a n't
o'd -
used for centuries Pro patria mori. how futile expressed '
war
was
even be
capital L -
undeniable fact,
'
so
well known
many suffered + died because of
this
-
saying
only held
power because
Figures of speech
no one
opposed it
Punctuation
Sound devices
Pronoun shifts
Repetition
