Some situations in life make you grow faster, while others don't. It is believed that the size of your life is determined by how many lives you touch. It doesn't matter how much money you make or how many records you collect. However, can it be measured by how many people you kill? For Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon they think so. They were both outraged by the lives of young soldiers lost to the horrors of war. In "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, there was a magnificent but terrible account of World War I soldiers suffering a gas attack. Unfortunately, in the poem one of the soldiers fails to wear his mask and suffers terribly. Wilfred Owen uses a brilliant choice of words and rich, stark images to reveal his ethics on war. For these reasons I chose “Dulce Es Decorum Est” as my favorite of the two. I also selected “Dreamers” by Siegfried Sassoon because it explains the mind of soldiers on the battlefield. These soldiers fantasize about their homes and family, but lack realism in the situation. They fantasize that they will remain alive while corpses surround them. In Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" and Siegfried Sassoon's "Dreamers" both poets use a first-person point of view to portray the harsh reality of war with vivid images, but in very different tones. No one denies that both poems make extensive use of imagery. At the beginning of “Dreamers” and “Dulce Et Decorum Est,” the poets do not hesitate in the first lines of their poem. Owen and Sassoon explain through a colorful choice of words how terrible the conditions were for the soldiers. They do not codify the realities these soldiers faced every day. Specifically, in “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, Owen explains how the soldiers were so tired of walking...... among...... paper images, but with extremely different moods. Society often portrays many things in a different light. They might describe something as the new and adventurous thing everyone should try, but they don't include the effects. Often people are deceived by their means of persuasion without recognizing the facts. The key thing these poets were trying to explain was that there is no way to know what something will be like unless you experience it. They don't say to go out and try everything, but that you can't believe everything people say. Works Cited Owen, Wilfred. "CoursePlayer: CoursePlayer." Read Dulce et decorum est. Spring online. Network. June 22, 2011. .Sassoon, Siegfried. "CoursePlayer: CoursePlayer." Read Dreamers. Spring online. Network. June 22 2011. .