“Dulce et Decorum Est,” by Wilfred Owen is one of the most popular war poems ever written. He is warning young men eager for World War I, "the children ardent for some desperate glory," (Owen line 26) that war is not what it seems. The media and recruiters made the war seem like it was glorious and exciting and something that turned a boy into a man. Although the war did change a boy into a man, there was nothing glorious and exciting about fighting for your country. Instead, it was brutal and one of the worst things a person could ever experience. The first-hand experience of a gas attack gives the reader an incredible insight into war and could possibly change the perspective some might have as to what war is. The title comes from the Latin