As I read, I sometimes imagine a movie running 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 imagination. Booth and Mays define images as “sensory details 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 that which appeals to the eye. We want to imagine what the speaker sees, but without sensory language it is difficult to imagine. Wilfred Owen guides us through "Dulce et Decorum Est" with ease as he incorporates 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 happy that Owen used this diction because he created a scene that stayed in my head much longer than if he had taken an easier route. Having never been to war, I can't say for sure what it feels like to fight. If I had to guess, I'd say it's terribly loud. With bombs falling, guns exploding and people screaming left and right, it would be hard to hear yourself think; when the author writes "If you could feel, at every shock, the blood/Come and gargle from the foam-corrupted lungs," one can only imagine how loud it had to be for anyone to feel it in all that fighting (lines 21-22 ). These lines not only showed us the bitter disease caused by poison gas, but also the harsh end that soldiers faced during this war. struggle to wear them. In this poem, images shape what we think and what we will further believe about war based on how vividly we see it. If horrible photos had been taken during this battle, we would have had a visual representation of it. If they gave us a helmet to touch and try we could easily understand what the soldiers felt physically during this war. Unfortunately, however, we cannot fully understand this war because we cannot smell, feel, or taste this war like the soldiers did. Although in this poem all five of our senses are nourished by words that help us go back in time and visit the place being talked about. Without images this war scene would be short, boring and quiet. With the overwhelming description provided 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.