Is it sweet and fitting to die for your country; is war really kind? In comparison of two poems, Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and Stephen Crane’s “War is Kind;” both successfully use language to describe how they see war and will help find out if there is an answer to the question above. What type of language am I referring to between “Dulce et Decorum Est,” and “War is Kind?” What …showed first 75 words of 887 total…

…showed last 75 words of 887 total…and most likely will never go to war, therefore I cannot be completely swayed to agree with one way or the other. Both writers successfully got their point across, even though the writers portrayals of war are completely opposite. I would recommend these poems to those who are confused about war, to give them an idea of what war could be from both sides of the spectrum. Yet in the end the questions still looms.