Guest Blogger - Chelsee F.

Hello everybody! As I was pondering about what to write I was suddenly inspired by Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et Decorum Est. The primary concern in writing poetry is all about the experience. Poetry is full of all kinds of experience including actual or imaginary, strange or common. Using poems to decribe vital events help bring a lot of emotion for the event. By using a soldier as the speaker it helps us see how they would see it in there situation. The poem is about WWI and the usage of poisonous gas as a main weapon to use against the opponent. Wilfred Owen is able to put many words that sketches out lucid images of what being in war is. This poem has vivid imagery that really captures the idea of dying for ones country. “And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin” This is very descriptive of how the deadly gas is contorting his face. Using such imagery really captures the reader’s attention. “Dim through the misty panes and thick green lights, as under a green sea, i saw him drowning. In all my dreams before my helpless sight he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” The soldier sees another soldier who is dying from the green poisonous gas. He could not belive what he was seeing before him, this helpless man with a few minutes t olive. By using all this imagery it helps readers understand how dangerous being in war is and what we put people through. “The blood come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs bitter as the cud of vile.” War is an ugly thing and she quote Dulce et Decorum Est, it is sweet and becoming to die for one’s country, is a very false quote.