*Dulce et Decorum Est* - Wilfred Owen

Question 1

Context for dulce:

Answer 1

Wilfred Owen
influenced by Siegfried Sassoon who he met in Craiglockhart Hospital while being treated for PTSD
returned to trenches and died 1 week before end of WW1
propaganda against war - trying to show the reality

Question 2

‘All went lame; all

Answer 2

blind; Drunk with fatigue’ - image of fragility of the soldiers

Question 3

‘quick

Answer 3

boys’ - emphasises the cruelty as the soldiers were young

Question 4

‘clumsy

Answer 4

helmets’ - the adjective shows how unprepared the soldiers were for battle and the unfairness.

Question 5

‘under a green sea,

Answer 5

i saw him drowning’ - metaphor showing the terribleness of war. ‘drowning’ is a horrible way to die.

Question 6

‘In all my dreams,

Answer 6

he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning’ - ‘dreams’ links to the PTSD of Wilfred Owen. Tricolon showing the haunting memories of war

Question 7

‘the wagon

Answer 7

that we flung him in’ - carelessness, desensitised to the death

Question 8

‘incurable sores

Answer 8

on innocent tongues’ - the war has taken away their freedom (taken away their speech). ‘incurable’ shows the everlasting affects of war

Question 9

‘the old lie’

Answer 9

blaming the government for lying about war and convincing people to join as it is ‘sweet and honourable’