While reading, I sometimes imagine a movie playing in my head; the description makes me feel like I'm actually in the scene. The detailed language used in the writing is strategically placed to ensure that readers understand what the writer was feeling when writing it. This type of literary device is called imagery. Booth and Mays define imagery as “a sensory detail used to evoke a feeling or describe an object” (A6). “Dulce et Decorum Est” is full of vivid images that appeal to all five senses. Images come in more than one form. One category, called visual imagery, is imagery that uses sight. We want to imagine what the speaker sees, but without sensory language it is difficult to imagine it. Wilfred Owen guides us through “Dulce et Decorum Est” with ease, integrating details into his work. In line fourteen, he could easily say that the gas suffocated another man near him, but instead he proclaims, "As under a green sea I saw him drown" (line 14). I'm certainly glad that Owen used this diction because it created a scene that stuck in my head much longer than if he had taken a simpler route. Having never been to war, I can't say for sure what combat is like. If I had to guess, I'd say it's awfully loud. With bombs falling, guns going off, and people screaming left and right, it would be difficult to hear yourself think; when the author writes "If you could hear, with every shake, the blood/Come and gargle from the lungs corrupted by foam", one can only imagine how loud it must have been for someone to hear it heard in all these fights (lines 21-22). These lines showed us not only the bitter illness caused by the poisonous gas, but also the difficult end that the soldiers faced during this war. In this poem, ...... middle of paper ...... make one We have difficulty putting them on. In this poem, the images shape what we think and what we will believe more about war based on how we see it. If there had been horrific photos taken during this battle, we would have had a visual representation of it. If we were given a helmet to touch and try on, we could easily understand what the soldiers felt physically during that war. Unfortunately, we cannot fully understand this war because we cannot smell, hear, or taste this war like the soldiers did. Although in this poem, our five senses are nourished by words that help us go back in time and visit the place described. Without images, this war scene would be short, boring and uneventful. With the overwhelming description given in each line, we see a more accurate depiction of the war and are given the opportunity to experience it as if we were there..