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Wilfred Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est

Introduction

Peace is the most longed and least found phenomenon and aspect of this world. The younger generation may think that the current era, with respect to peace is the worst in the history of the world, with all the ongoing wars, terrorists' attacks, wars to curb the potential terror and much more; but little do they know that bloodshed, violence and chaos have always been the destiny and core component of this world.

Luckily, the current generation has not been in a position to witness the chaos, which surrounds and indulges the whole world. Deplorably, the world and its inhabitants have witnessed the destruction, chaos, the sorrowful bloodshed and excessive loss of the previous lives, twice. Ironically, it had always been the dream, of almost everyone, to witness the world as a beautiful and peaceful, as wished in the fairy tales, but fairy tales are a fictious, and what we live in is a dire and horrific reality; a reality that is surrounded by greed, worldly desires, bloodshed and hatred.

Brief Context of Wilfred Owen's Dulce ET Decorum Est

Owen's Dulce Et Decorum Est's is believed to be one of the biggest masterpieces of the early 20th century. This master piece eloquently expresses the dreadful and frightening period of the world war, when the whole world was subjected to the terrifying sounds of the incessant sirens, bombings, bullets, cries and woes. This poem by Wilfred Owen adeptly sketches the terrifying images of the war and possesses the pain and adversity that directly condemns and censures the war and its aftermaths.

Describing in the best gruesome manner, the losses which besides the civil population, even the army had to endure, the poet does not hesitate in depicting what the weapons and the ruthlessness of the opposing army had deployed to lower the morale and the fighting spirits of the soldiers on the other side of the front line, which were the English soldiers. In this poem the poet, further describes a situation along the front lines, in which how ruthlessly the opposing army had utilised the deadly weapons, and in what deplorable fashion our soldiers endured the anguish of those weapons and tactics (Hughes, p. 164).

The Poet Himself

Interestingly, unlike other pets, who would later on analyse and articulate an event via their words and adept depiction of the converting the heard stories, into their own feeling; Wilfred Owen himself had witnessed the adversity and shocks himself. Wilfred Owen was an army officer. He had attained the appropriate training for being the army officer, and equipped himself for the battle and war that awaited him. However, little did he know that what he had been equipped for was far less than what he would face and witness in the war.

Poet's first stepped into the practical reality of the war in the end of December 1916, where he had accomplished his required military training and deployed to France. Being deployed at the frontline in France made him the prime witness and ...