Dulce Et Decorum Est Flashcards
Context
Written in August 1917
He died a year later at 25
Writin in hospital when recovering from shell shock
Technique old beggars
It’s a simile
Shiws how you don’t get nice and fancy clothes for doing a brave and noble thing for your country but you really get the same clothes ad homeless people on the streets
Technique “coughing like hags”
It’s a simile
Done to show how his attitude was eveil and argumentative
Technique “men marched asleep”
Short+ snappy sentences shows how draining the war is. Shows how they walked mindlessly as they were so exhausted . Shows how his attitude was struggling.
Technique “we cursed through sludge”
Sensory appeal
Helps reader understand how frustrated the poets attitude is .
Technique “ as under the green sea”
This is a smilie
Shows how they were surrounded
And how he felt he was being trapped under a strong sea
His attitude was fearful and stressful
Technique “trudge”
A verb
Can show the negativity , heaviness the per was feeling
Shows how he was so tired he could barely walk
Language choice “floundering , guttering , chocking”
This are violent and dangerous words
Used to show how horrific and haunting the war was
Shows his trauma and strong attitude
Language choice the title / poem
The title is “it’s sweet and honerabke to do die for your country”
This is contrasting with the Poem as its bold and elegant title and the poem is dark grim and is very agaist war showing the poets attitude to be very strong and more powerful
Language choice “stanza 1 to stanza 2
Stanza 1 is calm , collected , exhausted e.g example words
Stanza 2 is stressful, eventful , quick e.g example words from stanza
This shows how the mood in war can change quickly
Shows how his attitude can change so quickly
Language choice the verb “flung”
It’s subtle but shows a lot of emotion and shows how they didn’t have time to dwel and honour on every death but really just move it aside for more battle and death. Shows his sad and weary attitude
Cheesy
It made me self aware of ongoing wars and they hardships of the people fighting in the wars
Made me realise really how bad war can be
Made me self reflect
Technique “an ecstasy of fumbling “
Shows how he was helpless, and desperate to get away . Shows how he was so afraid and scared he kept falling about.
Technique” in all my dreams”
Shows how the horrors still haunt him and how still after all this time he still relives the horrors every time he sleeps and shows ptsd from war. This helps see how the poem is about personal experiences and how raw the emotions and feelings are throughout the poem.
Technique “in some smothering dreams” ”
The word smothering being used when talking about dreams
Shows how his PTSD stops him from breathing when dreaming this horrors and how the story is so scary it suffocates him ebryrhtime he thinks about it
Technique “flung”
Using this word when talking about how they care for the dead bodies show how it isn’t glorious to have war as after you die your treated the same as some discard meat or logs for a bonfire. Shows how they have no time to honour death but they are to continue the same adding more bodies to the piles
Technique “the Old Lie’
Old lie has a captil to show how important . And how that was is glory and to die for your country is a lie they tell people and how he strongly believes it’s a lie
How the lie tells people to go to war when in relwity you get a grusum undignified death
Rhyme scene
A B A B C D C D E F E F
very simple like a child’s nursery rhyme scene regular +simplicstic
Almost like a child’s poem when dealing with complex issues
Dulce et decorum est
It means it’s sweet and honorable
And
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Means it is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country
