All Quiet On The Western Front 'And Dulce Et Decorum Est'

This quote was stated at the very beginning of the book when one of Paul’s old friends, Kemmerich, is on his deathbed from an amputated leg. Paul said this because even though Kemmerich hadn’t died yet, Paul and his friends already debate about who should take Kemmerich’s boots when he does die. In doing so, they also disregard that Kemmerich doesn’t want to give the boots up yet. This grim and unorthodox reaction to a person being close to death at the start of the book really helps the author set the mood for the book as a whole. In the quote, Paul says he and his friends “have lost all sense of other considerations, because they are artificial” is his explanation for why Paul and his war comrades don’t care about the sentimentality of the

(Remarque 220) He does not want to have to keep living through the pain and just put him out of his misery. This was the first person that Paul has ever killed, what makes it worse is that he killed him with a knife. Paul says,”This is the first time that I have killed with my hands, whom I can see at hand, whose death is my doing.” (Remarque 221)

The diction in the passage exhibits the dying soldier’s fear through the dramatic word choice. Remarque continues to emphasize the fear in the scene through the use of hyperboles and personification. The soldier’s fear is exaggerated because it is powerful enough to move Paul. Since the soldier is frightened, it magnifies Paul’s fear because he is displaced and is unsure how to return to his trench. After the gurgling ceases, the tone becomes less tense because it is clear that the man is dying and would not be a threat. Paul realizes that he is the part of the cause of the suffering and feels guilty. The image creates tension in the mood and fully conveys Paul’s concern and anxiety while he sees this dying man. Yet, Paul still feels a need to help the man because he notices that the man’s eyes are communicating that he wants to live. Remarque’s description of the man’s helpless plea emphasizes the horrors of war and the fear of

He uses death, tragedies, and brutal events to show the reader the stomach-turning way of life in war. Remarque makes Paul very ostentatious so to speak. He uses all these graphic images to get a point across. Paul explains during a bombardment, horses are hit as well as the men. “Those are the wounded horses. But not all of them. Some gallop away in the distance, fall down, and then run farther. The belly of one is ripped open, the guts trail out. He becomes tangled in them and falls, then he stands up again” (28). The screams of the horses become implanted in the men’s heads, even though they cannot see them. Another gruesome image is that the soldiers go to take cover in a nearby cemetery. Paul illustrates the scene, “With a crash something bears down on us. It lands close beside us; a coffin thrown up” (31). Even the dead are being disturbed by the war. Paul wants it to seem as if the once dead are coming back to life. The last major imagery scene would be in the hospitals. The hospitals are a symbol of war. “It must be all lies and o no account when the culture of a thousand years could not prevent this stream of blood being poured out, these torture-chambers in their hundreds of thousands. A hospital alone shows what war is” (117). War is about killing another living thing. Once you are hit, you go to these “torture-chambers”. You go there

In All Quiet On The Western Front and “For You” demonstrate that when soldiers step on the front line they quickly realize how brutal war is. No One knows how bad war is until they are on the front lines. In All Quiet On The Western Front the book says The book says “The thunder of the guns swells to a single heavy roar (Remarque-pg.35. In the song For You it's says “All i saw was smoke and fire” (Urban). These Quotes represents some examples of Horrors Of War because It makes them depressed, afraid of dying. In “All Quiet on the western front” It says “They'll slip you a waterproof sheet to your old corpse”. In the poem “For You” he says “If it came down to it, could I take the bullet. These quotes represents Horrors of war

Erich Maria Remarque did a phenomenal job of evoking imagery in his novel, “All Quiet on the Western Front.” His alluring use of adjectives and adverbs made his words jump off the page. The sweeping images of the dead and wounded, linger in my mind. However, sight is not the only sense that his writing induces. Whilst reading the passages that describe the death, destruction, and fighting, one can almost feel, and smell, as if they lived the very moment. The fact that Remarque describes how the soldiers slowly become disillusioned with the war, makes these images more impactful for me. He explains that the soldiers know that the war was not their fault, and the men they are killing are not actually the real enemy; they are just ordinary

Paul has his first real encounter with death when his friend Kemmerich dies in the hospital. The realization that he and his friends can and will die makes the war suddenly real to Paul. He battles with internal opposing forces of hope and despair, as he grows from an ignorant child to an educated veteran. He begins to

    In addition, Pauls anger towards the war only grew stronger. Many more of his fellow comrades died, some more and more unbearable to even comprehend for Paul, and others coming from the enemy side. Although,  Kemmerich and Katczinsky were Paul's closest friends. Kemmerich was the first hardest death Paul had ever had to go through. He got wounded, and had to get his leg amputated. Kemmerich was sitting in the hospital bed for awhile, in a huge amount of pain, and trying to hold on. Soon enough it became harder for Kemmerich to bare, he became in agony. Paul was upset when he  had lost his first closest friend, and hated that Kemmerich had to go through that. Paul shows how sad he was in the lines, “I become faint, all at once I cannot do more. I won't revile anymore,

All Quiet on the Western Front is the story of Paul Baumer’s service as a soldier in the German army during World War I. Paul and his classmates enlist together, share experiences together, grow together, share disillusionment over the loss of their youth, and the friends even experience the horrors of death-- together. Though the book is a novel, it gives the reader

     When Paul becomes stranded in No Man’s Land, he undergoes the transformation from a carefree young adult to an inhumane, lifeless shell of a man. The change begins when Paul hides in a shell-hole, waiting for a pause in the bombardment. A French soldier jumps in as well, looking for shelter. Paul has prepared for this circumstance and stabs him three times. Paul’s strikes are not mortal enough, for the wounds do not immediately kill the Frenchman. The enemy soldier dies over the next day, and while the soldier slides inexorably into the throes of death, Paul

‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ is another of Wilfred Owen’s poems that conveys inner human conflict, in terms of past doings in World War I. The poem was written in 1917 at Craiglockhart (Owen’s first battle after his rehabilitation due to ‘shellshock’). It portrays an inner change in his approach to war and it’s gruesome environment:

The phrase translates into "it is sweet and honorable... " The phrase also appears at the end of the poem followed by “pro patria mori,” which means "to die for one's country" (Wilfred). “Dulce et Decorum Est” is essentially about a young soldier watching his comrade die in the trenches, during a gas attack from the enemy during World War I. In “Dulce et Decorum Est,” Wilfred Owen uses gruesome imagery and degrading and dark similes throughout his poem to show readers

The imagery throughout the novel All Quiet on the Western Front is exceptionally vivid, and difficult to forget. Many images linger in my mind, especially the visualization of the men waiting. They do not even know what they are necessarily waiting for. They are waiting to go home and for the war to end, but they are also waiting to die. They know that either way, the outcome will not be favored, because they simply have nothing to live for.

In Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” the speaker’s argument against whether there is true honor in dieing for ones country in World War I contradicts the old Latin saying, Dulce et Decorum Est, which translated means, “it is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland”; which is exemplified through Owen’s use of title, diction, metaphor and simile, imagery, and structure throughout the entirety of the poem.

‘Dulce et Decorum est’ was written in 1917, a period of absolute chaos and disorder, which is prominent throughout the poem; Owen wrote this in response to Jessie Pope’s “Who’s for the Game?”. Much like the majority of his works, ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ was inspired by his own traumatic experiences he encountered first hand.