Some Desperate Glory

them to do so. Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce Et Decorum Est” addresses this as it says, “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.” Owen ends the poem telling the reader that nationalism is not worth killing or dying horrible deaths. Glory and patriotism makes men attack each other without any personal reasons involved. Yet, this sense of nationalism divides and drives these soldiers to kill mercilessly

hears about a monster named Grendel, a monster who controls Herot. Herot is a town that’s in desperate need for a savior; consequently, Beowulf believes that he can be that guy. The author of this Beowulf is unfortunately unknown. There are many examples of Anglo-Saxon values in Beowulf. Anglo-Saxon’s values are key to how they live their life. One thing the Anglo-Saxons highly value is pride and glory. They take pride in where they come from; therefore, these individuals are hard-working, blue

with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old lie Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori. He is saying to not tell young children enthusiastically that the war is full of pride and glory for one because it is in fact quite grave and diminishing. As he says himself, dying for one’s country is not sweet or right and it is simply just an old lie that people falsely believe, he wants the reader to realize that there is absolutely no glory in war at

Wilfred Owen's poem ‘Dulce et Decorum est’ shows how harsh and terrible war really was. Owen uses language features such as similes, personification and strong adjectives to make the readers feel pity, disbelief and disgust at the struggles these men went through during the war. Throughout the poem the poet makes the reader feel disgust using violent imagery to show the harsh conditions that the soldiers experienced, and how the war affected them. This is shown when an unlucky soldier is described

The assonance in this sentence sounds likes the horses trotting at a steady pace towards the opposition. In stanza two we continue picturing them heading towards war but also picture some drama and shouting. ‘“Forward, the light Brigade!” Was there a man dismay’d? Not tho’ the soldier knew someone had blunder’d’. We also imagine them showing great courage, ‘Their’s but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred

attacks that happened in the trenches and in no-man land and how they were warned about the gas it also says ‘fitting their clumsy helmets just in time’ which refers to how they had to get their gas masks in and even though most did it just in time some also drowned in the gas filling their lungs with poison. ‘’Anthem for Doomed

are lead to believe in this before entering in the war. Once they reach the battle grounds, their mindset about patriotism changes. After fighting in the war, the speakers says one “would not tell with such high zest / To children ardent for some desperate glory” to fight in the war (“Dulce” 25-26). After seeing the war first handedly, the speaker knows that the pain and torture from the war can degrade a man.

Propaganda was used throughout the first world war to ensure that citizens knew only what their governments them to know. The Canadian government would often spread biased or sometimes even untrue information to influence the way people thought and acted. Propaganda had an affect on many aspects of the war, including the public opinion, charity/donations to the war effort, and recruitment. All of these aspects would prove to be essential in Canada’s war effort, which meant that propaganda was an

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well-known slogan of the time, represents a view Owen strongly disagrees with. Furthermore, the author’s discord with war is clear from the closing lines of the poem “My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie”. The “high zest” used to convince men to go to war embitters him, as he sees war as brutal and a waste of young