soldier crawling on hands and knees through a trench under a cloud of poisonous gas with dead soldiers in the foreground and background

Dulce et Decorum Est

by Wilfred Owen

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Literary Devices

Imagery
Metaphor
Simile
Repetition
Juxtaposition
Irony
Oxymoron

Themes

War
Disillusionment

Style

Tone

Authorship

Wilfred Owen

Historical Context

World War I

Plot

Stanza 2