Need an argumentative essay on Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori: The Old Lie, The Young Die. Needs to be 2 pages. Please no plagiarism.Download file to see previous pages... In the war years, almo

Need an argumentative essay on Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori: The Old Lie, The Young Die. Needs to be 2 pages. Please no plagiarism.

In the war years, almost all able-bodied young men felt the urge to enlist, and among the minority who didn't, few could resist the pressure, coming as it did from every corner, even from one's own mother and sisters. Owen was one of the latter-he joined the war because he was force-fed the "Old Lie": "It is sweet, and right, to die for one's country." He had enjoyed his military training, but his life on the front was an experience of Hell. Although introspective and solitary by nature, he treasured the communal experience of living with his comrades-in-arms even in the most hellish conditions. His heart was full of pity for them, and he realized that it was his duty to record the truth of his feelings and theirs. "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and all his other war poems are therefore the authentic record of the feelings of those on the battlefront, and as such, have done all that any poet could have done to fight the war against war.

The very first line of the poem, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks," is significant because the poet is writing about men of his own age or younger. All the pain of war is brought out in the lines that describe the painful journey of the men through the sludge, dodging shells and bullets, wary of sniffing poison gas.