The poem ' Dulce et Decorum est' by Wilfred Owen shows how disastrous the situations were for the soldiers during and after a gas attack in WW1.
The main idea of this poem is that dying for your country is not sweet,beautiful or proper
A lot of figurative language serves this idea. It uses Imagery of sight through the whole poem to describe the gas attack: " Sim throughout the misty panes, and this green light, as under a green sea I saw him drowning. " and how hopeless were the soldiers that didn't put on or a second late, their gas masks.
The 2 last verses " the old LIE: Dulce et decorum est por patria mori " Por patria mori means it is sweet and beautiful to die for your country. Wilfred Owen uses imagery of sight to truly let you experience the feeling of being in a gas attack
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