What do you learn about the First World War from your reading of :: English Literature

What do you learn about the First World War from your reading of Wilfred Owens poetry? From Wilfred Owens poems you can learn so many different things. He was one of a group of soldiers, he wrote about the war as he experienced it. So all of his poems are primary evidence because the poems were wrote by him when the war was going on. We can prove that Wilfred Owen was in the War by using a quote from a poem he wrote. The poem is titled 'Dulce et Decorum Est'. In the poem he gives his opinion on war. He says "Dulce et decorum est Pro Partria mori" This means it is good and beautiful to die for your country. He wrote it in Latin, the rest of the poem is english. By using Latin I think it creates a distinguished impact on the reader. It draws their attention to it. Honestly, Wilfred Owen does not believe it actually is good to die for your country. He is being critical. The opposition to this view of war would be a poet named Jessie Pope. Wilfred Owens and Jessie popes' poetry is very different, Jessie Popes' is usually more of a poem to recruit soldiers and get the point across that if you fight for your country war is good. Wilfred Owens poems are far more descriptive and appeal to the senses, giving us an insight on life in world war one. In the poem 'The Sentry' he appeals to the senses by describing the weather as "water falls of slime" and describing the smell "Stank old and sour." We can learn from this poem that physical conditions in the war were awful. There would be high danger of dying and injuring yourself because bullets were being shot everywhere and gas attacks were occuring frequently. "Gas! Gas! Quick, boys!"(From Dulce et Decorum Est) We learn how the gas attacks effect the soldiers in the poem 'Dulce et Decorum Est' there is a section in the poem where Wilfred describes a gas attack. "Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light, A under a green sea I saw him drowning." The misty panes were Wilfreds eyes; they were misted because of the gas in the air. He describes the colour of the gas as 'green' and the amount of it as a 'sea' so it spreads quite a distance and widths as seas are generally known for being large. Green is known as the colour of envy and maybe the gas is representing the opposisitions jealously towards the enemy that they are winning. In this poem Wilfred describes what the soldiers are like in their