Dulce Et Decorum Est

"Dulce Et Decorum Est" is perhaps the most famous (anti)war poem in English. Read the note on the Latin phrase to get the full irony of the poem. In responding (YOU MUST) to this, consider how the horrors it describes is turned to ironic use at the end. How does the poem affect YOU?

This poem gives us the war with a very honest account, one not concerned with pretty metaphors. These are not happy soldiers, these are real men that have undertaken hardships. “Bent double, like old beggars under sacks” Some had even lost their shoes. They were numb to their surroundings, barely even aware when the bullets flew. One is lost as they neglect to fit on their gas mask quickly enough, “As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.” The dying man comes at the speaker in his panic, a frightening sight, “In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,//He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.” An image like this will stay with the speaker, haunt his dreams as he has said. The detail he goes into about the cart where they carry the dead man is disturbing to say the least. For me, this poem is horrifying. It clearly illustrates the reality of war. To me, it’s like the exact opposite of “The Soldier” which speaks of death at war as something to take pride in. There is no mention of pride here.

Good on the horrors presented here, and, yes, very different from the Brooke, but you might, again, compare this to other poems on the horrors of the war.
An easy one (I think): how does the title relate to the poem?