Dulce Et Decorum Est
Alicia Armstrong
Dulce Seminar reflection
"So if you have one soldier fighting for peace against another soldier fighting for peace, then honestly what are you fighting for?" Ashley Nelson
I totally agree with this and in fact this is what I'm making my whole entire poem project off of this perspective, because its true. If two people are fighting for the same thing then what exactly are they fighting for? If you have one man fighting against another man, and they're both fighting each other for freedom that’s when you really need to take a step back and ask yourself what exactly am I fighting for? Society says I'm fighting for this, but when you really think about it I'm not.
In all the seminars I usually use these experiences as a chance to analyze myself, try to test who I am and try to figure out what I can improve on, such as my overall participation. I feel like I do contribute to the conversation but the way I usually do this is by just making a few comments, I don’t play leader and try to lead a conversation which I will try to work on. Also I learned how to read each line of a poem and rephrase that line in my own words to figure out the meaning, we did this before we did the seminar and it really helped a lot.
I think that it honestly depends on what you are dying for. If you are a soldier in the war and you are dying to achieve oil and money, then no its not sweet, because you are killing other innocent soldiers for not a noble cause. But if you are dying for your country because you are trying to protect your family then yes it is sweet. But dying in war in general is not sweet, and I feel that war is not a good way to solve a problem and that we should all think and try to figure out a better way to handle the situations that lead us to the war in the first place.