In the poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, an appalling picture combined with its gruesome reality is painted through the use of simile and metaphor which brings out its theme in full relief. Rather than softening and humanizing the atrocity of the war by composing a poetry that flows elegantly and beautifully, Owen hurls the pain into the reader's face. Owen starts his poem by directly addressing his point and gives a metaphor of soldiers as "old beggars under the sack" and "hags" (1-2) which invokes images of weary soldiers in the battle. It also suggests the soldiers being scared of what is ahead of them. By Owen's painfully direct language, the reader becomes aware of the ruthlessness of the war. We find that these young men who were lured under the falsifying glorious images of the war are barely awake from lack of sleep, cannot...