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Dulce et decorum est professional person patria mori means it is a sweet and glorious thing to die for your country. It is a rime written by an officerConnotationsDulce et decorum est Pro patria mori means it is a sweet and gloriousthing to die for your country. It is a poem written by an officer inthe army in the world struggle one. The poem contains four stanzas whichall vary in their lengths.The first stanza is a description of a group of young soldiersretreating from the frontline. The lines are long which show how slowthey are walking. The stanza focuses on the physical and psychologicalaspects of what it must be like to be in a war. The words that are apply emphasise on this, haunting flares and also a sinister feeling.On the first line a simile is apply as the poet refers to the young mento be like old men. He also emasculates the men on the second lineby calling them hags which is a noun that compares them to old agedwomen who are in a very bad state. On the third line th e adjectivehaunting is used which adds a supernatural feeling to the poem.Following there is the word flares which is ambiguous is it couldsymbolise an attack or it could mean flares as in the flames of fire.The word backs is used also on that line as the soldiers maybetrying to get away from the bad that was happening behind them ormaybe it was a war that was spreading as quick as a fire that is whythe word flares is used. The men marched asleep on the fifth line asthey were exhausted and this exhaustion seemed to be trudging aroundwith them while theyre in battle. Also on the same line, it saysmany had lost their boots, I think boots are a symbol of a man, thisalso could mean the men were emasculated an... ...eaks directly to thereader, showing they are both the same and they are both to blame.Children is used on the next line as it shows they are still young,innocent, vulnerable and need protecting. On line 27 the word Lie isused, the uppercase letter reinforces that the fraud is not just a lieit is a large one. The words that come next in Italics is the actualtitle of the poem Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori, these wordsare written in Italics to they stand out. They also conclude the ironyof the poem, as irony has built up to this point during the poem byusing horrific images and language. The last stanza is one which iscontemplative and reflective.The poem has a universal message as it can be related to situationsall over the world. The situations could be in the past, present orthe future however the moral will always stay the same.