"Dulce de Decorum Est"

"Dulce de Decorum Est"
Wilfred Owen

Questions about the text: Is this poem about war? If so, is it from the soldiers point of view, or a refugees? What does "Dulce et Decorum Est" mean?

Personal Response: The wording of this poem made me feel like I was being transported into the life of the author. The imagery that was used was so vivid that I felt like I was on the battlefield, although I was unaware whether or not I was the soldier or the refugee.


Overall Thoughts about the text: I thought this poem was extremely vivid. The author used such good imagery, that I felt like I was sitting there watching the scene take place before my very eyes. The wording in the poem was also very simple to understand, minus the title, I mean, that was in a different language. The wording also made me think that this poem was talking about World War II because of the reference to the gas and the gas masks, but when I looked at the years that the author, Wilfred Owen was born, I realized that there was no way that the poem was talking about World War II because it wasn't even thought about at that time.