Dulce Et Decorum Est Animation

An animated adaption of Wilfred Owen's harrowing poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est', to mark the 100th year anniversary of the First World War.
The original poem:
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.
Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! -- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.
If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
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.

[@s99fifi4]

I love how the entire world watched this during English class

[@emilyvadera2773]

Sionnach99 omggg same

[@jamesblueberry8581]

Innit

[@cams3575]

No one cares

[@oliverpearson-lund1508]

Yh me too that’s so funny

[@rebeccacrawford5660]

omg yea

[@user-li2li8uy6n]

You were sent by your English teacher, let’s be honest

[@kshibi5681]

I was sent by myself because I don't understand a word of this poem that I need to analyze 😭 (I'm French that's why)

[@mahnifairyytguy463]

Noo history

[@honeycomb7295]

yepp

[@arthurmears8518]

Yes

[@bluie_x1831]

I mean originally yeah but I forgot about it and saw it whilst watching the christopher eccleston one and was curious

[@EbonyTheRagdoll]

A lot of these comments are about how this was sent to us by our English/Literature teachers and while that is true, I think we should take a moment to think about what these people went through, the pain, trauma and other horrible experiences that the soldiers went through.

[@CC-qg6zl]

and still go through😢

[@Watching2909]

….

[@bruhman6411]

Shloop

[@StyloTheGreat]

I better ace this poetry test.

[@magpie1999aus]

+Uncle Kyle Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh

[@nathansmith6515]

same i have a test on this coming up.

[@emilyleah8262]

BlackStylo95 same

[@madeyoulook6270]

BlackStylo95 omg same XD

[@alyseegriffin4192]

I gotta analyze this poem as part of my final that's due today

[@michaelharley1633]

The reading of this magnificent poem is simply appalling.

[@YatharthRai]

This poem changed my perspective on war.

[@creepercraftgaming8334]

Yatharth Rai: Ye At first I saw war as just..... Well...... a war but when I realised what happened The gas,the bombs the raids just everything just CHANGED at that moment

[@KatLee-mv4vx]

Me too..

[@hypebeast3058]

This changed your perspective on war, search up about the “ Iraq protest “ and lets see what you will say about it

[@j3ss.j]

So... what did you think the Nazis, Holocaust etc I’m quiet interest oop

[@MadMax-bv7vb]

@@j3ss.j Fuck the Nazis

[@West_Coast_Mainline]

This poem hits deep It’s a accurate portrayal of the pain and suffering of the trenches

[@wiggy1988]

Very good video but my goodness was the reading awful. "gas...GAS! An ecstasy of fumbling" was meant to be really dramatic and it felt like the reader was looking at his shopping list. "eggs, bread....butter! A quick ruffle for some change"

[@maggoli67]

Good variant reading!

[@Callum-we7vz]

ahahaha

[@acmusic8433]

lol

[@phobos2076]

lmfaoo

[@nickyjudge7659]

that just made my day ha ha

[@phobos2076]

*sees gas* *whats the first thing I do* *>sharply inhale for a long second*

[@phae9060]

everyody gangsta till you hear "GAS GAS QUICK BOYS"

[@yourmavirgin7492]

Lmao

[@kiaradalton3063]

HAHAHAH

[@victory_snow8220]

Damn. Reading and talking about this poem is one thing, but watching it is another. Really puts it into perspective.

[@leondoolin4087]

oh god i mean when blood comes out of his mouth is rly just grim

[@leonsketchley693]

Some of my classmates had nightmares for years...

[@volkov6460]

@@leonsketchley693 ur classmates are soft as hell then lmfao

[@Afrancis16]

@@leonsketchley693 Imagine it in real life, Thats what these men went through. Rest in peace.

[@prathyushabhamidipati1532]

Bro, the voice of the narration makes it scary.

[@Phloneme]

the video itself is quite good, but the way the poem was recited... there's room for improvement ^^

[@mynamebaka8800]

Wow this video help me alot. At first I was just reading the poem and I couldn't really get the images so its hard to analyze it. Thank u for making this video

[@tcgam3r]

Anyone come from English, Poetry?

[@soaringhedgehog8341]

yup ;)

[@oisinroberts5095]

Wow, the animation is good but the narration is honestly horrible

[@1bgrant]

No, really, it doesn't convey the bitter emotion of the poem. It sounds very monotonal.

[@katelynnlee5158]

It's everything about the narration. lol He just has a horrible voice. Everything else was great.

[@ayanoaishi1932]

Exactly. He couldn't pronounce the Latin phrase either.

[@ycaitlyn475]

No it's alright, but yea it's not the best

[@forestdenizen6497]

@@1bgrant too much Hollywood expectation. The narration was perfect, verbal equivalent of the thousand yard stare. Go and listen to some interviews with Vietnam veterans.

[@lucysinclair8148]

We watched this at school and I was absalutely terrified! P.S the reading is terrible

[@harpoon183]

I love how nearly everyone is here because they were forced by English or history

[@andrewowen9803]

wilfrad owen was my uncle unti 1918 when he died i never got to meet him but i awawy go to his grave and sit their telling him that he was famos but also a poem writer i love his poets and it just brings joy to me rest in pice uncle wilfrad march 18th 1893 to novber 4th 1918

[@corporaltommy4407]

Has anyone else noticed that at 1:37, it is a parody of the painting of gassed soldiers marching to the rear?

[@theeow6103]

Not sure if "parody" is the right word but yes

[@choclarious5429]

Oh yhhh

[@annelieseperry493]

Why do you make me watch this, Miss Guttridge

[@georgeplayingguitar]

very touching, it captures the true imagery of the poem.

[@ananyaraj945]

The writer is Wilfred Owen, he was a British Soldier during W.W.1.

[@KittyNoir3083]

Saw this in English and wanted to watch it again 😫🙏🏼

[@jennifer-xo4ei]

BTS are my life sourceu stans everywhere i see 😂

[@rebeccacrawford5660]

omg same

[@Notsoaveragesinger]

Same I watched this in English last week and I’m making a project about it

[@darraghodonoghue5082]

can you not put some effort or emotion in this

[@Prizrak131]

Darragh O'Donoghue this was a real poem from a real soldier in ww1

[@bluelightalarm]

WW2Fan Adventures yes, so why then was it recited like a shopping list?

[@biggiecheese1908]

bluelightalarm it’s meant to reflect the tired soldiers

[@forestdenizen6497]

@@bluelightalarm ever heard of the thousand yard stare? Shell shock? Battle fatigue? The cartoon heads weren't enough of a concession to millennial attention span? Maybe he should use the 'scribbling pencil' animation style too?

[@bookoflists]

@@forestdenizen6497 I agree with bluelightalarm. Shopping list is apt: "Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots" it does sound like he's reciting products. That's not to say a narrator can't sound fatigued themselves, but they ought to impart emotional inflection at the right points.

[@oliviabarwick5288]

Who else is here for online school😝👇

[@TheDerpGator]

The animation looks great

[@forsale9949]

Let’s be real, it’s your English teacher that made you do this

[@yusrax3525]

This poem is really good. I have a test on this coming up. Just imagine how much pain and how traumatised they were!

[@caseynotrelevant7611]

I have do do this for my chorus reading any tips to remembering it all

[@Inside_11]

Thank you for such a great video ❤

[@jamie-tu7vw]

Thats when I realise I told my english teacher Wilfred Owen died in 2018

[@jonathan545]

This has helped me a lot in revision for my English Exam, thanks!

[@timjm2326]

same

[@oOOOo33-q5q]

It's sad knowing that he died before this was published😔

[@madisona8096]

can someone reply with what they did for the test cuz i don’t feel like failing english 😀

[@MuhammadAbdullah-cj6nx]

you have a talent, keep it up and make it better. I am a hundred and 1 percent sure your channel WILL succeed

[@summerloudwintermute4152]

this is great, thanks for making it.

[@Someone-tf1tk]

I remember having to memorise this whole poem for an English test 😭

[@mohamada9864]

English class?

[@melaniekemp7550]

this is a great animation for a great poem. both absolutely haunting.

[@davidbouvier8895]

Back in the early 1960s, I worked with a WW1 veteran who had lost a lung to a gas attack. And idiots here make jokes. The author of that magnificent poem was killed shortly before WW1 ended on Nov 11 1918. That date, Nov 11, also happens to be my birthday. It's always a hard day on which to celebrate a birthday, while bemedalled old geezers with tears in their eyes gather to remember their fallen comrades.

[@kayah.murphy]

This is such a sad poem captured by beautiful words, it's so c razy how something could be sad and beautiful at the same time - but such is life 🥀

[@skyrai_2697]

Hey, Animative Media, could you please send me this video with the sound but without narration?

[@alibal_0]

Can anyone tell me the name of the music in 2:47

[@JayBenjamin9214]

Wow! I'm already a huge advocate of Owen but this animation ramped it up a gear for sure!

[@yashitaverma3926]

Still this poem couldn't change the course of wars. WWll happened, lots of wars are going on, no-one knows how long.

[@BeRzErKsTa]

i hope i remember this for my exam tomorrow

[@malidonnnnnn]

did you pass

[@yourmavirgin7492]

@@malidonnnnnn LMAO IM CRYING THIS WAS 5 YEARS AGO LMFAO

[@ThatWookieGuy]

Superb poem, very good video.

[@phsal5182]

thank you!

[@davidhutchinson5233]

What these vets went through. I served in the USMC and it makes me shudder.

[@oskiii8951]

How is the kid so happy and fine to sleep

[@jacksonchontos2910]

because that's the soldier when he's a kid, his dad tucking him in is symbolism for the medic putting the blanket over him as shroud for his eternal rest

[@Fishy28929]

This will help my test, thank you

[@Syncsthemc]

Can someone tell me where exactly they where it’s for English

[@Syncsthemc]

*were

[@Itsreallynia]

Ohh the green sea is the gas Thanks for this!

[@layauk9978]

Thank you

[@fortnitefunny4305]

We watched this at school today as well

[@theshinyampharos8820]

George Adderley same here

[@supermario6988]

Same

[@chloecooke1273]

Same

[@dufcloyal8579]

Fortnite Funny so did we

[@catpayne1]

Same pol

[@YashpalKrishna]

Great animation !

[@hayleigh7354]

it’s the night before my english exam and watching this is all the studying i’ve done😌

[@Sergiuszwil]

I seen this my English Teacher... (sergi was here)

[@IsabellaD-gd5tu]

Dulce et decorum est means something along the lines of, it is sweet and fitting to die for ones country

[@evanferguson1602]

Why do we have this in Gcses

[@michelleharrison7098]

Can anyone comment on what age group this video is appropriate for?

[@baselevelknowledge8077]

great video !!!!! :)

[@rebecca2533]

Wow this is honestly really sad!

[@vinegar4556]

So this is how it felt for Tetsu and Kendo to fight Mustard...

[@davidhutchinson5233]

If ever there was or is a hell on Earth, war is it.

[@mahnoorbano3914]

Idk why im watching this not like imma rememba it tmrw😭😭😭

[@Bill-sz4oo]

My teacher told me that people in high school do plays about this but I'm in primary school in year 5 and I'm 9 years old so I hope our class makes a good impression

[@blibblab222]

believe me, they don’t

[@oliverwb6595]

Just essays

[@DeafPlayer19]

Wow! it awesome video I don't understand what is it on about but it help me to understand much better thank you so much!

[@thecrazypinkrobotsheep6387]

a solder who had to be sent to France to recover from mild shell shock wrote this poem about the horrors of world war two and basically try not to make the children that war really is dulce et decorum

[@BadAce42]

The Crazy Pink Robot Sheep *WW1

[@thecrazypinkrobotsheep6387]

AllyCat whhhaaaa?

[@traceyosborne6516]

+The Crazy Pink Robot Sheep It was WWI

[@BadAce42]

The Crazy Pink Robot Sheep Tracey Osborne Yep, WW1. Sorry I took a year to get back to you. I didn't get a notification about your comment a year ago and only just saw this when Tracey commented. XD

[@lakshya6235]

THANKS

[@roybennett4445]

I had relations in the UK who told me of the survivors who were around in the late 1930/1950..they said the same thing no one should suffer like that...maybe politicians.

[@docjsh6973]

I am doing this poem at school with my class in september

[@o_o7yt]

great animation

[@hubsta3040]

Be honest this is homework set by your teacher

[@kob6912]

I love the memes of gas gas quick boys

[@Zoinksbeats]

an exstacy of fumbling

[@nickmz1258]

everyone:wow that animation was amazing me:well that was dark

[@moodyfrah4158]

Very nice!

[@george8617]

lets face it, you were either sent by your history teacher or english teacher

[@myles137.]

Nice animation, but the recital could have been a bit better I think. Good job all the same.

[@ATT784]

I can’t believe I watched this twice

[@dire-decadence]

Requiescat en pace, we will remember them.

[@bicyclewaltz5879]

Lest we forget.

[@jasmine-warbo]

I’m doing this for homework rn

[@Paula-lz1il]

Oh god am i honestly the only one that literally had nightmares about this i find this SO creepy

[@nanawordie7967]

I had to do AP World History questions over this

[@anonxmousanna]

I watched this in class and it made me cry.

[@monkofdarktimes]

for all who passed away there a dark time in human history

[@_AABCEHMU]

Brilliant!

[@davidhutchinson5233]

From this and my fellow veterans....we want one thing. PEACE

[@darthmaul40]

Thank

[@ithielpitt7525]

Rip Conrad

[@summerparker8997]

My favourite poem, know it off by heart 😌

[@UndeadGamersz]

My fav Poem!

[@bruhman6411]

Samuel

[@koniko1243]

I think that the child enjoyed the part when his friend died

[@Zoinksbeats]

big smoke has entered the premises

[@gibby8540]

I auve to study thesis for the jc and it's far my favourite one

[@trolllol3380]

GREAT ANIMATION, and respect for all those, axis and allied, who died in the Great War.

[@Xzeno98]

+Jason White there were no axis or allies in the great war

[@trolllol3380]

+zXeno9 Oh yeah, duh. My bad lol! XD

[@YOJAMESTV]

what a dreadful thing

[@InkCoyote]

War is traumatizing