Dulce et Decorum est: it is a sweet and honorable thing. The title of the poem first suggested to me a poem of brave glory and the glamour of war; however, as I began to read, the words frightened me. Every piece of literary work I have read about WW1 can not match the ferocity of Owen's words. The first paragraph drew me in and I can literally feel the suffering of the soldiers. Line …showed first 75 words of 248 total…

…showed last 75 words of 248 total…with it. Lines 8-12 forewarn and say that if you saw what he had, you would not proclaim with such pride "to children ardent for some desperate glory (line 10 paragraph 4)" as in young, full spirited men who wish to fight simply because they feel it is glorified; because he truly knows what war is, and it is not glamorous or glorified but a vile and evil thing which brings nothing but haunting dreams and pain.