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Dulce Et Decorum Est An Analysis of Imagery in Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce Et Decorum Est” We have all seen the movies and read the stories of World War I. They give us an idea of what is what like to fight in a war of that great magnitude. The battles were bloody, horrifying, and ferocious. “Dulce Et Decorum Est” is a great poem written by war poet Wilfred Owen. It involves a tragic war situation. His imagery gives detail to what is was like on the battlefield, and also to state what his thought is on the war. In the first two stanzas’s Owen describes how the soldiers are trudging back to camp from battle. The soldiers are fatigued and wounded as they return to the campsite. The men are walking asleep, ignoring the blast of gas shells in the background: Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs war, owen’s, owen, soldiers, describes, gas, et, est, dulce, decorum, through, green, wilfred, way, under, title, solider, reader, poem, one, friend, drowning, country, camp, back, allows, world, trudging, trudge, thought, things, stanza, soldier, sea, out