Dulce Et Decorum Est Response

Another reason why war is a transformative event is because it gets rid of any misconceptions about warfare by showing individuals the reality of the situation. In the poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, the poet summarizes his experiences in war, and expresses his feelings about it. Throughout the poem, the reader can feel Owen’s hatred for the war by his use of many examples of negative imagery, and his feelings are most easily conveyed by the last lines, which read “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est/Pro patria mori”(Owen 27-28). Owen’s poem expresses his thoughts on how being quixotic, and not asking important questions as a soldier can have very dire consequences. The soldiers believed what they were told about war, which was that war is like a fairytale, and they never bothered asking any questions as to how their elders knew

Supporting an event or action without understanding its effect can have an extremely devastating outcome, especially if it concerns different nations. It is important to think about the results that a specific incident can result in before jumping right into it. Supporting a cause without knowing any details can have various side effects on the people involved, and in the case of war, it can lead to soldiers not being able to handle the truth about their existence as fighters. In the novel, The World of Yesterday by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, the author writes about the excitement that his fellow Austrians felt about the idea of going to war. The Zweig writes that the others “saw [war] in the perspective of their school readers and of paintings in museums” (Zweig). Many countries throughout the world had not gone through any sort of combat in a very long time, so they had no idea what type of situation it