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

In All Quiet on the Western Front, the author paints a realistic and gruesome tale of war. Many people believe that war is a glorious event. The author succeeds to show how gruesome and devastating war actually is. In many books, movies, and TV shows, war is described as glorious and good. War is not glorious or good from the beginning of time people have been at war and from that people have died. War is shown as the thing that gets the girl or the thing that makes people see you as a king and that people come back untouched. That is the false way the Hollywood and others have butchered the reality of war.

Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front has a central theme of the harsh realities of war and a general negative attitude toward the subject. This attitude is synonymous of other war poems such as Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen and War Is Kind by Stephen Crane; however, the attitudes are revealed differently in all three pieces through each respective author’s use of diction, imagery, and tone.

From the earliest records of history, accounts of war have been portrayed as valiant acts of heroism. Children and adults alike have gathered together to hear tales of war and its glory. From the stories of Alexander the Great to recent-day movies like Saving Private Ryan, war has been praised and exalted with words such as bravery, honor, and freedom. However, Wilfred Owen's poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" shows the ugly, horrible side of fighting. By use of gripping words and vivid descriptions, Owen paints incredible pictures of what World War I was really like. He tears away the glory and drama and reveals the real essence of fighting: fear, torture, and death. No

Dulce Et Decorum Est relates to All Quiet on the Western Front in many different ways relating to the war. Both of the stories show how the soldiers are reacting to the attack “Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!” as the soldiers are trying to do everything in their power to survive and fight through it(Owen line 9). Both stories show horrors of war as everybody was “deaf even to the hoots of disappointed shells that dropped behind”(Owen line 7,8). This shows how they did not have enough incoming soldiers to take the place of the soldiers that were there. The existing soldiers were too tired to do anything that they couldn’t keep their eyes open long enough to see what the enemy were doing. AQWF and Dulce Et Decorum Est both show how the soldiers are very

The topic of war is hard to imagine from the perspective of one who hasn't experienced it. Literature makes it accessible for the reader to explore the themes of war. Owen and Remarque both dipcik what war was like for one who has never gone through it. Men in both All Quiet on the Western Front and “Dulce Et Decorum” experience betrayal of youth, horrors of war and feelings of camaraderie.

Wilson Owen (1893-1918), a soldier that fought in WWI, uses aspects of prosody in his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est” (1917) to convey how trauma generates significant impact because one suffers from confusion during a deathly situation. The poet describes an experience he had while in war: “In all my dreams before my helpless sight, / he plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning” (Owen 15-16). Owen uses imagery to set the scene by describing his situation as something he cannot help. A fellow soldier is enveloped in tear gas and cannot find a gas mask so he plunges toward the author in attempt to receive his. Furthermore, he changes the rhythmical structure from iambic to trochaic in the last two beats, “choking, drowning” (Owen 16).

Since the beginning of mankind, war and the horrors that come with it have had devastating effects on both the minds and the bodies of human beings. Mentally, war drains soldiers of their ability to think properly. During a battle, soldiers witness bloody battles which frequently result in demise. Day after day of witnessing deceased fall to the ground, a soldier can do nothing but think about blood, gore, and his or her fallen comrades. Additionally, a war can be physically taxing on whomever takes part in it. Dodging or being hit by fists, swords, or bullets will inevitably cause pain and may disable somebody for the rest of their life. In All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque demonstrates through characterization, imagery,

In the incredible book, All Quiet on the Western Front written by Erich Maria Remarque, the reader follows Paul Baumer, a young man who enlisted in the war. The reader goes on a journey and watches Paul and his comrades face the sheer brutality of war. In this novel, the author tries to convey the fact that war should not be glorified. Through bombardment, gunfire, and the gruesome images painted by the author, one can really understand what it would have been like to serve on the front lines in the Great War. The sheer brutality of the war can be portrayed through literary devices such as personification, similes, and metaphors.

In “Dulce et Decorum Est”, Owen uses imagery repetitively throughout his piece. Visual imagery was commonly used throughout, which adds to the intensity of the event. For example, in stanza two, Owen vividly paints a picture in the reader’s head by recreating the reality of warfare. By adding imagery, readers are able to get a clear image of what the battlefield was really like, which had the men fumbling for their helmets in order to survive. Similarly, “London” also vividly paints a picture by the strong imagery found throughout. For example, the poem starts off by presenting us with the poet walking through the streets of London. This was a time of unhappiness and people suffering, similarly presented in “Dulce et Decorum Est”. As the poet walks down the charter’d streets and the charter’s Thames in London Blake’s clear, descriptive analysis of what London was like connects the readers to the awful times in London. Throughout both poem's auditory imagery also enhanced the intensity of the message being told. Throughput “London” the auditory imagery allows readers to imagine the children, soldiers, and prostitutes weeping from the horrific experiences that they are going through. In Owens poem, we are able to imaging the men yelling and stumbling for their helmets. The reality of war changes when it says, “GAS! Gas! Quick boys!” (Owen 9). This creates the reality of what was was really like. It allows one to imagine the men yelling and screaming in order to

World War I is a War where many lives were lost and got many people sick in the mind because of the brutality of war. All Quiet Of The Western Front and the song “Dulce Et Decorum Est” both show Horrors Of War. Know ones how bad people in the war suffer until they're in it. In the book All Quiet Of The Western Front shows Horror of war “Kemmerich is dead, Haie Westhus is dying. Martens has no legs anymore”(Remarque 45). When all the soldiers friends die it makes the others feel nervous and rethinking about them entering the war. In the song “Dulce Et Decorum Est” it shows horror of war “Many had lost their boots but limped on, blood-shod”(Owen) The second piece of evidence that shows Horror Of War in the book is All Quiet Of The Western Front

In Erich Maria Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, human nature is the only abstract periphery between belligerent barbarism and justifiable violence. Through the insipid bombardments that rained shells over the Germans’ heads and noxious implementation of mustard gas, Remarque dexterously misleads the reader into believing that he fights in an apathetic war where all remnants of human nature and identity have been destroyed with the introduction of trench warfare. Through Paul Baumer’s eyes, Remarque identifies war as an artificial construct devoid of human identity and any subsequent emotions until the first bombardment, the first glimpse Baumer has of the unfettered abominations of war. After the shrieking of artillery shells ceased, it was replaced by the numbing scream of injured horses. Paul described this abhorrent noise as “the moaning of the world…, wild with anguish, filled with terror, and groaning” (Remarque 62), the first emotionally provocative scene in the novel. As if the description of the noise did not suffice to pique the reader, Remarque continues, “The belly of one is ripped open, the guts trail out. He becomes tangled in them and falls…” (Remarque 63). At this instant, Remarque sheds the obscure layer of superficiality and reveals the tatters of human nature and identity still exist even in most anguish conditions of comeradeship, sympathy, contrition, and selflessness.

In the beginning of the 20th century, as European countries were getting ready for war, people were rushing to sign up in what is now known as the Great War. The thought of war used to be romanticized by many because of how imperialists were able to win battles and take over so easily with their technological advances. Men thought they could go off, make a name for themselves, and then return home safely to their families; it was the ultimate romantic adventure. However, they soon found out that wasn’t the case. The war turned out to be one of the most tragic, all consuming wars in history of worldwide conflicts. The novel, All Quiet On The Western Front, depicts the lives of soldiers in trench warfare who, even though may have escaped shells, welre ultimately destroyed by the war.

Throughout human existence war has been a glorified way of settling disputes and asserting dominance, a place where powerful men have proven themselves, a place where glory and honor were achieved and a place where noble heroes died. Continuously through history humans looked past the horrors of war and misleadingly saw it as a glorious manner. This glorious view on war went unchallenged for centuries when finally the general William Tecumseh Sherman spoke out about the horrors of war and famously quoted that “war is hell”. In All Quiet On The Western Front William Tecumseh Sherman’s words can been seen in Remarque’s portrayal of the First World War by making display of the close similarities that war and hell have. Remarque exposes how truly horrendous the conditions at the front were displaying similarities between the conditions at war and to conditions described of hell. Remarque shows how the weapons used in the war turned man into ashes and countrysides into dead zones creating a real hell like environment. Lastly Remarque manifests that the horrors that war brought were so deep that the suffering would become eternal just as the suffering of hell. Therefore in the novel All Quiet On The Western Front Remarque brings life to William Tecumseh Sherman's famous quote “War is hell” by exposing how alike war and hell are by virtue of their similarities: How the conditions at the front were so horrendous they resembled conditions of hell; How new warfare technology turned

In the words of Otto Von Bismarck, “Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war.” Many of the preceding war novels to All Quiet on the Western Front, misrepresented or overlooked the anguish of war, in favor of more resplendent ideals such as glory, honor, or nationalism. The predominant issue of All Quiet on the Western Front is the terrible atrocities of war. The reality that is portrayed in the novel is that there was no glory or honor in this war, only a fierce barbarity that actually transformed the nature of human existence into irreparable, endless affliction, destroying the soldiers long before their deaths.

For example, Owen conveys “ He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning” (line 16). This constructs an extremely horrific image in the reader’s mind that helps the reader better understand the horribleness of war by displaying a tragic event Owen experinced. Another representation of this is when the poet states “Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud” (lines 22 & 23). This additionally recreates the horrors Owen went through as a soldier in their mind. Furthermore, the horrific imagery present in “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen assists the poet in educating the readers that war should not be