... 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...

• Word Count: 1476
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School