DULCE ET DECORUM EST

Dulce et Decorum Est
Means...
"It is sweet and right"

SUBJECT OF THE POEM

• World War 1
• Describes the condition of the soldiers.
• Mentally and physically broken.
• "Knock kneed, coughing like hags"

This poem explains the extremes of war such as gassing soldiers and watching friends die a gruesome death."gas, gas quick boys"

The subject of this text is that death and war are both not pretty or glorious. "His hanging face, like a devils sick of sin"