Certain situations in life make you grow faster, while others do not. It is believed that the measure of your life is determined by the number of lives you touch. It's not how much money you make or how many cases you collect. But can that be measured by how many people you kill? For Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, this is the case. They were both outraged by the lives of young soldiers lost to the horrors of war. In “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, it was a beautiful but terrible account of World War I soldiers falling victim to a gas attack. Unfortunately, in the poem, one of the soldiers fails to put on the mask and suffers horribly. Wilfred Owen uses brilliant word choice and rich, raw imagery to reveal his ethics of war. For these reasons, I chose “Dulce Es Decorum Est” as my favorite out of the two. I also chose “The Dreamers” by Siegfried Sassoon because it explains the spirit of soldiers on the battlefield. These soldiers dream of their home and their family but lack realism in the face of the situation. They dream that they will stay alive while corpses surround them. In Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and Siegfried Sassoon's "Dreamers," both poets use a first-person point of view to depict the harsh reality of war with vivid images, but with very different tones. No one denies that both poems use extensive imagery. At the beginning of “Dreamers” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, the poets do not hesitate from the first lines of their poem. Owen and Sassoon explain, through colorful words, how horrible the soldiers' living conditions were. They do not encode the realities that these soldiers had to face on a daily basis. Specifically, in "Dulce Et Decorum Est", Owen explains how the soldiers were so tired of marching...... middle of paper ...... images, but with extremely different moods. Society often presents many things in a different light. They may describe something as something new and adventurous that everyone should try, but do not include effects. Often people are deceived by their means of persuasion without recognizing the facts. The key thing these poets were trying to explain was that there is no way of knowing how something will turn out unless you try it. They're not saying you have to go out and try everything, but that you can't believe everything people say. Works Cited Owen, Wilfred. "CoursePlayer: CoursePlayer." Read Dulce et Decorum Est. Primvera online. Internet. June 22, 2011. .Sassoon, Siegfried. "CoursePlayer: CoursePlayer." Read Dreamers. Primvera online. Internet. June 22 2011. .