In the poem "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, explores the hard conditions and realities of the soldiers during the World War I. The burdens of war and the overwhelming weariness faced by the soldiers are described in this poem. They did not have the proper training and equipment to fight this war. Also, the long marches to battle through bad conditions wore them down including Owen. The poem's title is ironic, Owen wanted to throw the war in the face of the reader to illustrate how vile and inhumane was really is. The intention was not so much to induce pity as to shock people at home who believed war was noble and glorious, but that fighting for one's country is simply sentencing a lot of young men to an unnecessary death. The poet uses the three Aristotle's rhetoric appeals logos, pathos and ethos, to show the true horror war.
             In the poem Aristotle's rhetoric logos addresses the basic human characteristics of his audience: logic and reasoning. We can see the poem itself as a logical because in the poem we can see that the meaning is reasonable. Owens uses words that set up ripples of meaning beyond the literal. Also the poem's structure with twenty-eight lines, six quatrains and four unequal stanzas, the first two in sonnet form, the last two looser in structure. For Owen it was not reasonable or fair to die for one's country in a war.
             Pathos refers to the emotions and feelings of the writer expressed in his poem; the first stanza sets the scene. The soldiers are limping back from the front, an appalling picture expressed through smile. Such is the men's wretched condition that they can be compared to "old beggars under sacks" (1). "Men marched asleep" (5) barely awake from lack of sleep, they cannot walk straight as their blood-caked feet try to negotiate the mud (6).
             Physically and mentally they are crus
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