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Dulce et Decorum est” is a war poem written by Wilfred Owen (in 1917), one of the most significant war poets, during World War I. He was born in 1893. His experiences of the war led him to represent the war through crude and realistic details, but also with pity and human sympathy.Now considered the most important of the “war poets”, Owen wrote particularly relevant poems, as experiments in poetic technique.The “war poets” were the first who denounced trench life or death by gas, but also who revealed the sense of exaltation and the spirit of adventure that marked the first years of the war. Analysis of the poem:-"Dulce et Decorum Est" surprises the reader from the start:The opening lines contain words such as bent, beggars, sacks, hags, cursed, haunting, trudge… This is the language of poverty and deprivation, hardly suitable for the glory of the battlefield where heroes are said to be found. -The narrator is the poet himself; -The poem is divided in three irregular stanzas. Each stanzas deals with a precis point: The first introduces the situation ;The second describes the gas attack;The third presents a poet’s dream-nightmare; The last one describes the soldier’s death and produces the poem’s message……but which is the poem’s message? It is enclosed in the title and in the last two lines. The important point is ‘dulce et decorum est’; this is a line taken from Orazio ‘Dulce et decorum est pro Patria mori’; it means that staying in trenches, killing humans being and seeing friends die is orrible (like he says in the whole poem) but, at the end, die for the homeland is satisfying and rewarding. Finally, the last section represents a warning, veiled by a bitter irony, directed against the authorities, intellectuals, the media, all those at home who incited young people to war, describing it as a glorious and epochal event: if all these, says Owen, they could see what he saw, when instead they invite to the conflict remaining quiet at home, they would not say "to the children the ancient lie: that it is sweet and decent to die for the homeland"