“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks” The fourth stanza consists of twelve lines which would make it the longest stanza and making it six times bigger than the smallest stanza, with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEF. The third stanza smallest of all the stanzas with two lines but because it’s content is a lot stronger and dramatic it requires that it stand out from the others alone although it continues the rhyme scheme from the preceding stanza CD. The second stanza consists of six lines with the rhyme scheme ABABCD. The first stanza consists of eight lines with the rhyme scheme ABABCDCD. Wilfred Owens’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” contains four stanzas and with twenty-eight lines. The speaker does not believe that dying for one’s country is as glorious as they where led blindly to believe. So he probably did actually see the scene he describes in the poem and his experience convinced him that the saying, “Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori” or “It is sweet and honourable to die for my country” was no true. This poem is set in World War I, and when Wilfred Owen was a British soldier. This proposes the theory of early propaganda to lure young men into the army to fight in wars and to hide the awful conditions in which they fought in the trenches packed with soldiers and infections which lead to disease. This means the sentence “Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro patrioa mori” means “It is sweet and honourable to die for my country”. ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ is Latin for “It is sweet and honourable” the other part to that sentence is “Pro patrioa mori”. The title is in Latin ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ which gives the impression of an old Roman or Roman related poem. The first poem I will explain is ‘Dulce Et Decorum Est’ it shows the realistic side of living on the front line. I will explain what the poems mean and them compare them to each other. This essay is about two contrasting peoms about war and what it represents.The first peom is ‘Dulce et decorum est’ written by Wilfred Owen who has a negative view of war on the other side of the argument we have ‘The charge of the Light Brigade’ written by Alfred, Lord Tennyson who’s views about war are that it is a noble event to be a part of.
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