Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Dulce et Decorum #1

Can you discern Owen’s purpose for writing “Dulce et Decorum Est”?
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  1. dtwelve89November 10, 2009 at 5:35 PM

    Personally what I see in our society is that soldiers are not always acknowledged for their sacrifices to protect us and our country. Perhaps Owen's purpose of writing "Dulce et Decorum Est" is to illustrate the horrendous realities of war and the hell that soliders are put through. Only then might we show a little more compassion and appreciation for our protectors.

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  2. DecembrielNovember 10, 2009 at 7:38 PM

    The purpose of this poem was to show how the life of a soldier doesn't always lead to honor, loyalty and pride. It sometimes ends in your body being just another casualty.

    "The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro Patria Mori" - Wilfred Owen

    "some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I am willing to take" -Lord Farquuad (Shrek 1)

    I believe both these quotes have the same purpose. To represent the mockery a government has for its people. From the day we learn to salute our countries flag. We're told about the honor, loyalty and Pride that comes with protecting our home land. The reality however is there is probably 1 in every 100 soldiers that ever get the honor they're promised. But it would be harder to get people to agree to go to war if they were told the truth.

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  3. AndcliuNovember 10, 2009 at 9:26 PM

    Owen's purpose for writing “Dulce et Decorum Est” is that there is nothing glorifying or honorable about war. Soldiers watch helplessly as their close friends and comrades are taken from them. Even for the ones that survived the war, their lives would've been heavily impacted mentally and emotionally from the horror of seeing people get gunned down, blew to pieces, or suffocated by gas. Nothing will ever be the same. We are always told that we are fighting for something just and right, but in the end most of it concludes to nonsense (bullshit) from our government. This loyalty, glory, respect, justice, honor, and patriatic things are all meaningless. How is it so glorifying, respectful, just, honorable, and patriotic to see people from either side get blown and shot to death?

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  4. chaperonesNovember 11, 2009 at 8:18 AM

    “Dulce et Decorum Est”  “Sweet and fitting it is to die for your country”
    Owen’s purpose of writing this poem was in order to tell the true face of the war from the soldier’s perspective. The government puts all kinds of propaganda in order to attract young people to go to war. At the end, when one is in the middle of the war and going through the horror and pain of the war, one losses humanity and feels like a piece of meat that is going to be butchered in a few minute. Owen’s poem tells the true story of the war and hell the young soldiers go trough before they die “Sweet and fitting it is to die for your country.” People learn about what is going on in the war from the media and don’t really know what exactly happened in the battlefield. Owen’s poem helps people see and feel the war. So, people can appreciate the lives that are lost to get the victory.

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  5. Tsegu KahsayNovember 11, 2009 at 11:08 AM

    "Dulce et Decorum est Pro Patria Mori" which means "it is sweet and beautiful to die for your native land", is sarcastic title given to a poem written by Wilfred Owen. It is a poem about a soldier who got attacked by a gas bomb and died on his way back to his camp. This soldier was very tired, miserable and sick who could not even carry his own body. This soldier had a very heavy legs, who could not walk back had hands almost not operative that he could not wear his mask during the gas bomb attack, so he died choked by the gas. This horrible situation which lead the soldier to death is called honor. Owen was describing the death of this soldier sarcastically sweet and full of honor. Owen which died by a gun shot while celebrating the end of WWI, has been able to describe his ati-war feelings through this poem.

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  6. Ivory LeeNovember 11, 2009 at 8:43 PM

    Owens’s purpose for writing “Sweet and fitting it is to die for your county” is to expresses the soldiers’ lives in the World War one. In this poem, Owen describes the soldiers walk along streets situation. They could be having a healthy body because they are young; however, due to the war they were become lamed, deafen and fatigued. Because of the world, they were afraid; helmets are just weapons which are not the best ways to protect them. Not only they need to across the streets in the war, but also they were infecting by the incurable sores. It is not only hurt in psychological, but also hurt in physically. This situation is very painful, but they didn’t have a choice.

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  7. AnonymousNovember 11, 2009 at 9:35 PM

    I agree with dtwewlve89 and Tee Kaey. Many countries glorify the act of going to war or dying for your country. We are doing it here in the US today. Owen showed the irony of the phrase “Dulce et Decorum Est” meaning “Sweet and fitting it is to die for your country”. There is nothing neither sweet nor fitting about the poem that he has written. He writes about the harsh reality of war, the part of war that is not displayed on our newspapers and television screens. The public receives a watered down, death toll or casualty list, but Owen’s poem goes farther than that, it gives you the face to face reality of war. After a very horrific description of war, he offers the last lines of the poem, lines 25-28 to the reader, “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.”

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  8. Joey phanNovember 11, 2009 at 9:44 PM

    Owens's purpose for writing "Dulce et Decorum Est" is to show the hard reality that soldiers have to face during world war I. the title of this poem is "how sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country", this is just a lie that government used to convince people to risk their lives to go to war. in fact, the soldiers gone to hell every single day during the war.the war was not only affected them physically but emotionally at well. Owens used this poem to show people that it is not always glory to die for your own country.

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  9. JosephNovember 11, 2009 at 11:34 PM

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  10. JosephNovember 12, 2009 at 12:44 AM

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  11. JosephNovember 12, 2009 at 12:46 AM

    When I read this poem, "Dulce et Decorum Est", I was able to recognize the misery and distress of war. Owen shows and describes the wretched scene of battle and the condition of soldiers well. That is he shows the only negative aspect of the war. Therefore I think the purpose of Owen for writing "Dulce et Decorum Est" is to let us know that the war can not be regarded as the thing to honor and glorify the people(Soldiers) with any reason such as "loyalty for the country". I think he is saying that war is just terrible and makes people really miserable, taking off the humanity from them. And he also shows us the human being's brutal nature and reveals the war make them very cruel by showing that they did anything to kill effectively each other and even used poisoning gas.

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  12. AllenNovember 12, 2009 at 10:36 PM

    To the experience the soldier traumatic emotion they felt during the war and what they saw harm their inner soul of who they are to become feeble and feared of the true nature of mankind in the face of war which is the evil incarnation that lies within each one of us, that just need the right push in that direction it becomes a different personality within the thoughts of one.

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  13. DeweiNovember 13, 2009 at 12:00 AM

    The article “Dulce Et Decorum Est” describe a scene of war, those soldiers had to keep fighting even though they were so hungry that didn’t have enough strength to unbend their waist. In order to protect national benefit, protect their motherland, they kept their own faith (Sweet and fitting it is to die for your country.) to fight to the end. Thus, many of them sacrificed their young lives. That is Owen try to tell us: nobody like war, so those young men should not die because of the wrong faith. Maybe they initially have that faith is a mistake.

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  14. AnonymousNovember 13, 2009 at 12:47 AM

    This poem describes how those soldiers suffer from cruel war. They struggle, they fight, they get pain, and even they die. Owen wants to tell us that the war can not be regarded as honor and glorify, and even justice against evil. We should not be happy even though the war is win, it kills a lot people no matter who they are enemies or companions. Its purpose is making us know war leads to endless disasters and soliders suffer from a lot distress and fear of death.

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  15. raisinsklNovember 13, 2009 at 11:21 AM

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  16. raisinsklNovember 13, 2009 at 11:37 AM

    My instinct that Owen’s purpose for writing this (anti-war) poem is to give readers an vivid overview based on his own experiences in order to emphasis the profound/horror of the war. He also used great adjectives to give the readers the exact feeling that he wanted, especially when he discussed an incident in which soldiers died because of the poison gas that led to another horrifying aspect of this war. His poem concludes that is not glorious thing to dying one’s country, and to persuade us war is not a solution for the problem.

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  17. Benson O.oNovember 13, 2009 at 12:15 PM

    This poem is trying to bring the readers to WWI. Experience the same as the writer, both emotionaly and physicaly. After the vivid expresstion, the reader can actully see the "posion gas", "drowning" and the "devil's sick of sin". All of those tell us how horrible the war is. The war can bring us death, hopeless but never glory, and profit. On the other hand, after reading this peom, I feel like i should appreciated that I can live in such a good society. It is probably another purpose of why he write this poem.

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  18. carrielamNovember 13, 2009 at 7:18 PM

    Owen wants to write this poem because he see the fact that what war can damage to one's life. He see his friend suffer so much before he was dead,and his body was throw into a wagon after death. He state very clearly at the last paragraph " To children ardent for some desperate glory ", for kids who join the army because they could be proud for fighting for their country, but they would never imagine how much pain it was to go through war.

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  19. wendylyNovember 13, 2009 at 9:01 PM

    The poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Owen describes how the government lie, and convince people to risk their lives and go to war. This poem also describes how many people will sacrifice their lives to fight to protect their homeland. In fact, these soldiers suffer a lot even though they are winning, but still the war took away many soldiers lives. So, the purpose of Owen is to show us how war affected, and took away lives of those people who protect their country.

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  20. prettyleungNovember 14, 2009 at 2:14 AM

    In my point of view, Owen purpose of writing this poem "Dulce et Decorum" is to show the reality in the soliders life during war. He trying to tell us about what they think towards depth. They arent's that cold blood eventually. However, they still need to overcome their feeling. They understand it is not glory when everytime there's a partner sacrifices.

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