Poem Explication: "Dulce et Decorum Est" With the number of poems that exist, very few have the capability of leaving a last message in one's mind. "Dulce et Decorum Est", a war-inspired poem written by Wilfred Owen, makes an impact on the reader's idea of war brutality. It bring the realization of all the horror that soldiers had gone through, and questions the worth of one dying for his own country. To deliver his three-stanza …showed first 75 words of 575 total…

…showed last 75 words of 575 total…it is fitting for someone to die for one's country. Owen does an excellent job of illustrating his point, and opens the common citizen's mind to that of a soldier's. Everything from the message to the structure of the poem is brilliant. Nonetheless, after reading of such a brutal way to die, one could not help but agree that the value of one's life is far from the value of one's death for a country.