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Quidquid Latine Dictum Sit, Altum Videtur Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” very colorfully describes scenes of World War I in a way that only a man who served in the war could. Only through his comparisons can we begin to understand what it must have been like to take part in something so devastating. In Owen’s poem he uses logic , emotion, and his credibility as a well seasoned soldier, all three points of Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle, to argue that Horace’s quote “Dulce et decorum est/ Pro patria mori” has no bearing and is an “old Lie” (27). One can immediately see after reading the first four lines of “Dulce et Decorum Est” the use of logic through Owen’s rhyme scheme. The poem very closely resembles one of Shakespeare’s many sonnets in form excepting the rhyming g, g lines at the end. Logic is also exhibited throughout his work by means of his comparisons between scenes of war witnessed by him to more imaginable situations.
Approximate Word count = 609
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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