Dulce et decorum est (Wilfred Owen) by Jacob Manoj (Castle School,Taunton)

After World War

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-27 21:13:36 UTC

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jacob_manoj — 2013-03-27 21:28:58 UTC

Dulce et Decorum est is a poem written by poet Wilfred Owen in 1917, during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920.

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-27 21:32:26 UTC

Owen's poem (Dulce et Decorum est) is known for its horrific imagery and condemnation of war.

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-27 22:03:46 UTC

'Dulce et Decorum Est' describes a mustard gas attack on a group of war-weary soldiers. Owen's painfully direct language combines gritty realism with an aching sense of compassion. His despair at the crumbling of the moral order - the world's and perhaps his own - are expressed in phrases such as "froth-corrupted lungs', "sores on innocent tongues" and his description of the dying man's face "like a devil's sick of sin".

Reasons for which Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum est ......

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-27 22:04:41 UTC

Wilfred Owen is among the most famous poets of the First World War. This is the opening of a poem written in his own hand while he served as a soldier in the appalling conditions of the trenches. 'Dulce et Decorum Est' gives a chilling account of the futility of war, engendered from intense personal experience. It was composed during a burst of extraordinary creativity between the summer of 1917 and Owen's death in the autumn of the following year.

Dulce Et Decorum Est (Poem)

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 10:42:47 UTC

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
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

During World War

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 10:51:44 UTC

Gassed?

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 11:09:48 UTC

John Singer Sargent's painting Gassed hangs in the Imperial War Museum in London; the canvas is over seven feet high and twenty feet long. This impressive painting depicts soldiers blinded by gas being led in lines back to the hospital tents and the dressing stations; the men lie on the ground all about the tents waiting for treatment.

Poetry and Poetry analyses: _

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 11:24:41 UTC

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 11:37:54 UTC

Wilfred Owen would not have written the war poem for which he is now famous if he had not met Siegfried Sassoon in August 1917. Until then, like the vast majority of British people, Owen believed the war was being fought for a just cause.

Owen realized from Sasoon (a pacifist) that War is nothing but suffering and death; and therefore, from then onwards Owen started opposing the war and started writing war poems. He conveyed the pain and sufferings of the soldiers through his poems.

Wilfred Owen as a soldier

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 11:38:58 UTC

The effects of the poison gases used in World War II : _

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 11:42:03 UTC

1 . Blistered the skin causing extreme pain.

2 . Respiratory problems and Pneumonia.

3 . Vomiting.

4 . Impedes the ability of blood to absorb oxygen.

5 . Muscular twitching.

6 . Convulsions.

7 . General nausea.

Extra Knowledge on World War II ......

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 12:27:15 UTC

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A short introduction on Dulce et Decorum est

jacob_manoj — 2013-03-31 12:39:54 UTC

Between 1914 and 1918, over nine million people died. Entire cities were razed to the ground. Nations crumbled, only to be re-formed amidst political turmoil and enough bad blood to launch another war (World War II, to be precise) a few short decades later. American troops joined the war in 1918, bringing with them the deadliest weapon yet: influenza. More people died of flu than war injuries.

Caught in a war that was waged primarily in trenches (big ditches that filled with mud, rats, and rainwater), Owen began to find it hard to justify all the suffering and death he witnessed. He was perfectly willing to sacrifice his life for king and country, but, like many other people, he'd like to make sure that his sacrifice was actually needed.

Increasingly convinced that the war seemed to be carrying on beyond the point of reason, Owen began to write poetry that emphasized the irony of his situation. He was in good company: as it turned out, lots of men (including Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, John McCrae, and others) were feeling like their lives in the trenches were becoming farcical. Owen, however, managed to capture the division between the elevated language of nationalism and his reality, a world that suddenly seemed full of the blood of his nearest friends. Owen's experience rang true to a lot of the servicemen and women who contributed to the war efforts of the time.