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The irony in the poem Dulce it Decorum Est is that it is not sweet and fitting to die for
ones country when you have actually experienced war. Owen is describing how psychologically
and physically exhausting W.W.I was for the soldiers that had to endure such a cruel ordeal and
not how patriotic and honorable it was .
In the first stanza Owen describes how the soldiers are trudging back to camp from battle.
We see the soldiers, fat ....
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.... gas:
Gas! Gas! Quick boys!-An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundring like a man in fire or lime...
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
The way Owen describes a comrade watching as a lone soldier is struggling to get his mask
fastened awakens the minds of the readers to see the psychological effect that ....
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