Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! Dulce et Decorum Est, by Wilfred Owen is a powerful poem about 'how disastrous the gas attack was', which uses figurative language such as imagery, similes and metaphors. The main idea of the poem is dying for your country is Not sweet and beautiful. 'Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning' this is a simile, metaphor and imagery which describes the dropping of gas shells, how the soldiers are dragged down through the horrors of war. The last to lines 'The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori' means in Latin; how sweet and proper it is to die for your country but the word just in front 'lie' tells us they mean the opposite. Siegfried uses the last to lines to define the big idea 'it is not sweet and beautiful to die for your country'. Siegfried uses lots of figurative language to support the big idea.
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