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“Dulce et Decorum est” is a war poem written by Wilfred Owen, one of the most
significant war poets, during World War I (https://doc.studenti.it/appunti/inglese/world-war-one-breve-
riassunto.html) .
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dreams…”(15), “he pluges at me…”(16), “my friend…”(25). In fact we can see that Owen doesn’t
write from “without” but from “within” the war, he is inspired by his own experiences and by the
small and great tragedies of thousand of unknow people involved in a nightmarish, hallucinating
reality.
The scene is described from the point of view of a soldier who is the poet himself, in fact he says:
“we”, “our”, and he gives us a description of the exhausted soldiers. He uses a lot of adjectives
suggestive of weakiness and exhaustion as we can infer by reading: “asleep”, “lame”, “blind”,
“drunk”, “deaf”.
The idea of exhaustion is also suggested by the use of compound words as we can infer by
reading “bent double”, “knock-kneeds” and “blood-shod”, and by the use of metaphors as in line
6 and 7:”blood-shod” and “drunk with fatigue”.
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