Dulce et Decorum Est

This whole poem brings a sense of extreme fatigue and determination. Some passages that show such feelings would be in line seven in the first stanza, Drunk with fatigue;deaf even to the hoots (Owen 7). This gives the sense of tiredness. You can picture in your mind someone stumbling around barely knowing whats going on...resembling someone drunk. It seems like in the second stanza that the reader still senses the tiredness but when the five-nines are dropped, they all have this burst of energy and determination. In the first line of the second stanza, Gas! Gas Quick, boys!- An ecstasy of fumbling (Owen 9). This whole passage shows what one will do for ones country, even if it has to haunt you in your dreams.