... ;Bent double like old beggars under sacks" or "Knock-kneed, coughing like hags." These soldiers are living with critical conditions while being forced to fight in a war. In my opinion being in that situation can be scary for many people. Wilfred Owen's purpose of portraying a reality view on the war was ... just because their mates did. But what the soldiers did get in the end was a living nightmare and experiencing the horror of watching someone you know die. The author's purpose of showing the true horrors and portraying a realistic view of war is shown in the poem. When you see soldie...

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... , they will have to face the unexpected. Wilfred Owen was so appalled by some of his experiences in war that he exclaims in his poem that "a devil's sick of sin" (l. 20). This phrase means that the events in war are so repulsive and immoral that a devil would be sick from them. Another factor that many ... that Suddam Hussein possesses such dangerous weapons somewhere in the country of Iraq. If chemical warfare became the main artillery of war, then the world would be doomed to destruction as harmful gasses and chemicals would fill the air and ground, contaminating every living organism. ...

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... et Decorum est" by Wilfred Owen gives us an inside view of what it was like for soldiers in the appalling conditions of trench warfare from 1914 until 1918. This poem lets the readers build up a picture of what men during the First World War had to endure; pain, food rationing, trench foot, ... remind us that the men are so close to him that they see his agony attached in every line. "Like a deaths sick of sin-, here Owen tries to get us to imagine the devils face to be twisted, deluded and covered in green pus like that of the "green sea" of gas which so easily "choked" ... and "smothe...

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