king’ and ‘drowning’ show the reader that the men were suffering in extreme pain and misery.‘…Vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,’This very powerful metaphor is the comparison to the painful experiences of the soldiers. It emphasises that the men will never forget those horrific experiences.This poem does not only oppose the saying ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ but gives the reader detailed descriptions of the insufferable conditions and reveals some very ugly realities. However, it encourages thinking and feeling, while removing ignorance. The intensity grows as the length of the poem grows. Owen first speaks of many men, and how they all tried to survive the hellish conditions. Further into the poem he singles out one man. This one man is unable to get his gas mask on in time and so dies ‘guttering, choking, drowning’.‘…Someone still yelling out and stumblingAnd flound’ring like a man in fire or lime…’During this passage it cannot be helped but to visualise the one young soldier who was left ‘flound’ring’ in the burning gas. These graphic images are very disturbing but play a very effective role in the development of the poem. The images drawn in this poem are so graphic that it could make a reader feel sick.‘If you could near, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud…’These three lines alone shows the reader that so many soldiers were brutally and undeserving killed during the war. Owen uses intense graphic imagery to persuade the reader that war is absolutely atrocious and horrific in every way. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ is one of his poems that is extremely effective in showing the gruesome, heatless and horrifying effects of war.In Owen’s poem ‘Futility’, he questions the pointlessness of war in this short poem.With ...
