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  • Essay / El Duche De Corum Est - 460

    El Duche De Corum EstThe poem Dulche et Decorum Est is about Wilfred Owen (a war poet) who describes in his own experiences what war was like. The first verse describes how the soldiers returned to base camp. Owen uses a slow, broken rhythm to suggest the pain and misery the soldiers encounter and to imitate the slowness of their march. He does this using punctuation. The first verse tells us a lot about the condition, both physical and mental, of men and it gives us an idea of ​​the terrible conditions!. He uses similes such as “Bentdouble, like witches”; this illustrates how many men are getting sick. The poet's choice of vocabulary in the first verse is very effective in describing the state of the soldiers. He uses words such as mud, painful, and haunting to describe the harsh conditions of the battlefield. The rhythm of the second verse suddenly increases, which shows the panic of the soldiers during the gas attack! Punctuation is used to create this faster pace, exclamation points and short sentences suddenly pick up the pace. This gives the reader the image of tired soldiers suddenly transforming into distraught men. This means that the reader feels involved in what is happening! "Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!" direct speech is used to create panic. Owen also uses words such as stumbling, floundering, and groping to describe the dying man's desperate actions. Verbs such as scream and drown give the reader a feeling of chaos. “As under a green sea I saw him drown,” this describes how the gas causes a thick green misty haze around the men. This is a useful phrase because it allows us to imagine what is happening and use our imagination. It also gives us a sense of how real it all is in his vivid descriptions. Owen's guilt is suggested in the sentence: "In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, he plunges me, dripping, choking, drowning." The fact that he dreams of this