Explication Of Dulce Et Decoru

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gas is slow and painful. The soldiers who died did so painfully, it was as if they were drowning. Choking slowly, like being drown, death by compression and collapsing of the lungs. This is a horrid death. The poem is from the viewpoint of a soldier watching another soldier die. The soldier is experiencing the death of the other soldier. He is describing his dreams of choking and grasping for breath, grasping for life. As he watches the other soldier die he is thinking about his own death, about the deaths of other soldiers, about the deaths and casualties of war.
The author is discussing the realities of war...war is death. The reality of it all is that war amounts to death, there has never been a war without death. The author is revealing a viewpoint towards this death from a soldier watching his fellow soldiers die. Death by suffocation is a hideous way to die. The poet is expressing his feeling towards this death. In line 15 the poet begins to describe the "smothering dreams" ...

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