They both say that war is not worth it and that it is not what people really think it is. Owen says in the last 4 lines of Dulce et Decorum Est: “My friend, you would not say with so much enthusiasm To children eager for desperate glory, The old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. » (464). The old lie means, "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country" (463) and Owen goes against this saying because he knows it is not true. He has seen the terrors of war and people just don't understand what war really is. Also found in lines 5-8 of the poem Anthem for Doomed Youth, Owen says, “No mocking now for them; no prayers or bells; Nor any voice of mourning, except the choirs, — The shrill and mad choirs of the moaning shells; And bugles who call them from sad counties. (poetryfoundation.org) and I believe he is trying to let the reader know that people still don't understand what war is, even after seeing and mourning the dead. Owen is indirectly trying to tell readers not to send boys to war because it's not what they think, it's a horrible nightmare. The reader feels a sense of sympathy and sadness for the men who died and for those still fighting. This gives the reader something to think about in the