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The government often used posters, alongside using the draft to recruit new soldiers, making the war seem exciting and something to be pride of.

In Owen's last lines of Dulce et Decorum Est, he says, "My friend, you would not tell with such high zest to children ardent for some desperate glory, the old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"  which is translated to "it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country." With all of the atrocities described throughtout the poem, Owen gets his point of how the portrayal of the war is a lie and contradicts everything past generations have vouched for and what the reality of war is.