gave them flowers The quote Shall they return to beating bells on line 16 is almost asking a question. Will they return? I think this shows us that WilfredOwenss view of war from personal experience tells us that he hated the war and saw it as a grimaffair. The next quote tell us that he saw the men as dead as soon as they got on the train. Their breasts were stuck all white with wreath and spray As mens are dead The next quote has an oxymoron in it Grimly gay. And lined the train with faces grimly gay By doing this Wilfred Owen tells us that the solders that are lining the train are happy but this isshadowed by the fact that they are going to war and may not becoming back this makes the titleseem ironic The Send-off I feel that this implying that they may not come back and they havebeen sent off into the unknown. We never heard to which front these were sent. In Dulce et decorum est Owen tries to paint a very vivid picture of what life in the trenches waslike he describes the men as Old beggars and tells us that they were coughing like hags Healso uses the word trudge in line 5 and this tells us that the men are slowly moving towards theirdestination and are not physically or mentally fit but are slowly lifting one foot after the other andplacing it down into the sludge (mentioned in line 2). They seem to have known energy left atall. He mentions that the men marched asleep and this gives you an idea that they had not sleptfor few days and what sleep they did get was not worth mentioning. So I wont. The men hadquite clearly been injured or had lost their equipment he says Many had lost their boots But limped on blood-shod He tells us that the men were Drunk with fatigue and were deaf even to the hoots of gas shells dropping softly behind This enforces the picture that Owen has so vividly painted of the men. Coughing, ill with noequipment trudging through the sludge of no mans land. Wilfred Owens experience of war seems to be portrayed...
