A comparison of 2 war poems “The send-Off” and “Ducle et decorum est”
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...>"And lined the train with faces grimly gay"
By doing this Wilfred Owen tells us that the solders that are lining the train are happy but this is shadowed by the fact that they are going to war and may not becoming back this makes the title seem ironic "The Send-off" I feel that this implying that they may not come back and they have been sent off into the unknown.
"We never heard to which front these were sent."
In Dulce et decorum est Owen tries to paint a very vivid picture of what life in the trenches was like he describes the men as "Old beggars" and tells us that they were "coughing like hags" He also uses the word trudge in line ...
