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Dulce et Deorum Est

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             In the third line the poet describes flares, long flames often used for signalling, as "haunting" to the soldiers. This suggests that they are sick of the war and hate the constant reminders of it. Obviously they cannot get away from the war and the monotonous, dire lifestyle they faced every day in the ranks. Everywhere they turn constant reminders of the war surround them, weapons or perhaps even people that remind them of the loathsome duties they have to carry out. I know if it were I, I would feel that a sense of claustrophobia, an unease and repulsion of the things that I would be forced to cope with and an irrepressible urge to escape. I would hate the feeling of knowing that I could not just leave when I pleased and had to face the same tragic scene every day. This may be somewhat "deep" for the first few lines of a poem, but I feel that these kind of subjects are already beginning to emerge. The line continues to say that the man turned their heads on the haunting flares, maybe in a half-hearted effort to shut them out of their minds. .
             Line four is even less enthusiastic - it describes the men as "trudging to their distant rest". At least the men have something to look forward to, but then again maybe not, maybe the sentence has a double meaning, maybe "distant rest" is meant to be read further into and is a disguised synonym of the deaths that eventually the men will encounter. If this is the case then the line is quite dark, but if the line is taken as it is written then there is a little more optimism being displayed. .
             Lines five to eight keep on with the tired, droning tone of those prior to them; they describe how the men were marching almost subconsciously, regardless of losing boots or small explosions in their wake. Such events as injury occurring around you may be shocking to most usually, but to people fighting in the war they have become the norm. The men are portrayed as "limping and blood-shod".


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