The two poems "Suicide in the Trenches" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est" show resentment toward the war. The reason for this is because both poets Sigfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen had first hand experience in the war unlike their contemporaries Stephen Crane and Rupert Brooke who glorified war and the theme of patriotism. Since Crane's and Brooke's poems glorified war and encouraged young men to enroll in the army they would be popular in the war period and so were published before Sassoon's and Owen's works. As described by Richard Aldington in Life for Life Sake, "It is only after a war that the experience of the individual survivor seems to have either interest or value. During a war civilians only think in terms of 'our side' and 'their side'.". Sassoon and Owen are graphic in their imagery depicting suffering as they try to get the attention of the civilians during the war. Both poets use various poetic devices and techniques in their poems thus creating vivid images to show their fellow countrymen the true facts of the war.
             "Suicide in the Trenches" and "Dulce Et Decorum Est" deals with the struggle of soldiers in the war. The poems are graphic as they display suffering in ghastly detail. While "Suicide in the Trenches" deals with the human condition of only one individual soldier, "Dulce Et Decorum Est" portrays the mass killing of soldiers. Sigfried Sassoon starts off by introducing a common soldier and describing his life in the war. He then goes on to describe the difficulties of this soldier in the lines "In winter trenches, cowed and glum,/With crumps and lice and lack of rum"(Sassoon 5-6). He states that the soldier does not have food and is infected by lice. The soldier is also suffering mentally and he cannot get rum to suppress his misery. This is what leads him to commit suicide. While Sassoon us...