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Explication of “Dulce et Decorum Est?In his poem exhibiting the gruesome imagery of World War I, “Dulce et Decorum Est? Wilfred Owen conveys his strongly anti-war sentiments to the reader. Through the irony found in the ending, horrific imagery, and the feeling of surrealism woven into the poem, Owen forces the reader to experience the war, and therefore feel almost as decisively about it as he does. Owen applies the rhetorical situation, sensory imagery, and figurative language to contribute to the power and anti-war sentiment of the poem. The rhetorical situation in the poem helps to make the reader accept the poem’s message by showing that the speaker may be trusted to be knowledgeable about the subject at hand. The poem would be far less effective had the speaker not personally experienced the vicious and cruel world war provides. Another effective element of the rhetorical situation is that the audience addressed in the poem is the person who would not tell with such high zest/ To children ardent for some desperate glory/ The old lie (25-27) if he himself had been to war.
Approximate Word count = 599
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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