Wilfred Owen's poems, "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" vividly depict the degrading struggles one faces during times of war. The horrific dealings one experiences not only during, but after war, in memories, are truly nothing short of "incurable sores" ("Dulce" 24). "Anthem for Doomed Youth," and "Dulce et Decorum Est," can be compared and contrasted in different ways such as descriptive words and phrases, structure, literary devices, expressive themes and finally imagery. …
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…for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum Est" byWilfred Owen can be compared and contrasted. One can analyze this inareas such as: articulate words and phrases, structure, literarydevices, expressive themes, and imagery. War is a consuming thing, for Wilfred Owen wrote in "Dulce et Decorum Est," on lines 26-27, that it is not sweet and becoming to die for one's country, or in other words; "The old lie: Dulce et Decorum est / Pro patria mori."