He is trying to give the reader a simple message through the words of his poem. “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.” These two lines are the most powerful out of the entire poem. Owen is trying to tell us that it is not sweet and beautiful to die for ones country, it is a lie! Throughout the poem Owen presents a world of horror where men that we know as heroes, are treated worse than animals. He is saying that conflict changed them and they couldn’t escape it. The message that Owen gives is simple and very blunt. They have experienced horrors that we can never imagine and he doesn’t want any to experience what he
He is trying to give the reader a simple message through the words of his poem. “The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.” These two lines are the most powerful out of the entire poem. Owen is trying to tell us that it is not sweet and beautiful to die for ones country, it is a lie! Throughout the poem Owen presents a world of horror where men that we know as heroes, are treated worse than animals. He is saying that conflict changed them and they couldn’t escape it. The message that Owen gives is simple and very blunt. They have experienced horrors that we can never imagine and he doesn’t want any to experience what he