Dulce et Decorum est

Question 1

Bent double, like old…

Answer 1

beggars under sacks
Exhaustion. Physically and emotionally bankrupt.
Old sacks does not show patriotism or being proud

Question 2

Coughing like hags,…

Drunk with fatigue;…

Answer 2

we cursed through the sludge
deaf even to the hoots
Heavy alliteration conveys exhaustion of the soldiers
Caesura creates a slower pace like the soldiers are going at; exhaustion
“drunk” = intoxicated?

Question 3

First two stanzas in sonnet form

Last two broken up not in sonnet form anymore

Answer 3

Love for the country is lost
Disillusioned before and now they see the harsh realities of war
Irony

Question 4

Blood…

Answer 4

shod
Dehumanising as we think of horses
Horses = usually controlled by humans
Soldiers are controlled and do not have freedom

Question 5

An ecstasy…

Answer 5

of fumbling

Ecstasy

Question 6

Guttering, choking, drowning

Answer 6

Haunted in his dreams
Rule of 3 shows the deep effect the death of a fellow soldier has
Contrasts the “friendship” in The Soldier

Question 7

The last two lines

Answer 7

Show irony
Sarcasm - anger comes through
Attacking those who glorify war, e.g. Jessie Pope

Question 8

He was a soldier in WWI

Met Siegfried Sassoon

Answer 8

Experienced true horrors of war and its consequences

Both disillusioned and angered by treatment and consequences of front line men