To have a better understanding of the poem, it is important to understand some of Wilfred Owen's history. Owen enlisted in the Artists' Rifles on October 21st 1915. He was eventually drafted to France in 1917. The birth of Owen's imagery style used in his more famous poems was during his stay at Craiglockhart War Hospital, where he met Siegfried Sassoon (another great war poet). Owen's new style (the one that was used in "Dulce et Decorum Est") embelished many poems between August 1917 a

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