Comparing Irony of War in Dulce et Decorum, Regeneration, and Quiet on

Irony of War Exposed in Dulce et Decorum, Re times, and Quiet on the Hesperian Front Many of the young officers who fought in the Great War enlisted in the army with glowing enthusiasm, believing that war was played in externalize uniforms with shiny swords. They considered war as a noble task, an exuberant locomote filled with honor and glory. Yet, after a short period on the front, they discovered that they had been disillusioned by the war fighting earned them nada but insolubleness, final stage and terror. They had lost their lives to the lost cause of war, which also killed their honour and youth. They were no longer boys but c bothous men. Wilfred Owens poem Dulce et Decorum Est, dodgy Barkers novel Regeneration, and Erich Maria Remarques All Quiet on the Western Front, all portray the irony between the delusive glory of war and the sick reality of it, but whereas Owen and Sassoon treat the theme from a British tailor of view, Remarque allows us to look at it from th e enemys. The poem Dulce et Decorum Est, an anti-war poem by Wilfred Owen who was an English foots ancientier, conjures that it is not sweet and fitting to die a heros death for a country. Right off in the prime(prenominal) line, Owen describes the troops as being like old beggars under sacks (1). This metaphor indicates that the men are battle weary and suggests reluctance. They also have been on their feet for days and wait to be drained of youth as they marched asleep (5) and limped on, blood-shod (6). Overall, in the first stanza, Oundjian 2 there seems to be a tension between old and young because it shows how the impact of an endless war has reduced these once dynamic young men to the point where they could be referred to as old (1), infirm (6) and... ...s, demonstrated through the authors talent, are denouncing the authority figures who were supposed to guide his generation into adulthood but instead turned the youth against each new(prenominal) in the pursuit of sup erficial ideals. The soldiers were simply the victims of a meaningless war. In conclusion, Remarques firsthand encounters with trench warfare, Owens vivid descriptions of the soldiers experiences and Bakers touching accounts of the lives of historical figures, all state that there were no victors in war, only losers in a hopeless battle for territorial supremacy. Works Cited Barker, Pat. Regeneration. Toronto Plume, 1993. Owen, Wilfred. Dulce et Decorum Est. The Faber Book of War Poetry. Ed. Kenneth Baker. capital of the United Kingdom Faber, 1997. 3-4. Remarque, Erich Maria. All Quiet on the Western Front. Trans. A. W. Wheen. New York Ballantine, 1982.