This blog is in response to the reading, "Dulce et Decorum est", by Wilfred Owen. My group had to dissect this story in class. "Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori" means - it is sweet and proper to die for ones country. This whole entire story is basically about everything NOT sweet and proper. It's about the underlying of war. People go in thinking they will come back, or that it will be easy, until you watch your buddies die right before your eyes. They watch their friends die right in front of them with tear gas and guns, etc. They then have to go home and wonder, "Why did God save me?" I'm not saying that going into the army is a terrible thing to do. You all are very brave and I support our army. This story was written in 1917, and Wilfred Owen wrote them poem and described it as a gas poem.
Discussing this poem in class was interesting. It was pretty plain and simple. Owen was definitely saying that it's a lie. At the end of the poem he says something like, after watching these things you would never say that it is sweet and proper to die for ones country.
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