Andrew Ringate
Mr. Hahn
Lit of War
10/30/15
Comparison
The poem "Dulce et decorum est" by Wilfred Owen has a lot In common with "All Quiet on the Western Front." By Erich Remarque although Remarque never fought in the first World War he still is able to write about the tragedies of war. In Owen’s "Dulce et Decorum est" it is a vividly descriptive war poem, In which Owen describes the horrors of trench warfare during the Great War in great details. Although the imagery Remarque uses in the book “All Quiet on the Western Front” is much more detailed then the poem as it has more time to describe everything. Some people think that “The fields are flat” is a better description as it gives the book in general a bit more feeling. Whereas in the poem, Owen uses lots of short hard hitting words and sentences to get the point across while being extremely descriptive such as "Obscene as cancer" The poem gives a much more immediate effect in a shorter space of time which allows the readers to paint a picture in their minds …show more content…
In the poem the gas attack raises the tempo in the story stating "Gas! Gas! Quick boys!” whereas in the book it is very familiar saying "Gas-Gaas-Gaaas-Pass it on." Towards the end of stanza two in the poem it slows down as if in a dream "Misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw him drowning" Owen uses fewer words that Remarque so they are using a different way of delivery in both. "Bitter as the cud" is from "Dulce et Decorum est" which coincides with the arrangement of words and phrases to create well formed sentences which also means syntax. The effect of this is extremely powerful. The sentences and phrases that are formed are disjointed and very clipped, so when the pace is quick the syntax is short and when it is slow and instructive the syntax is