Both say that war isn't worth it and isn't 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 great enthusiasm To children burning with some desperate glory, The old lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.”(464). The old lie means, “it is sweet and right to die for one's country” (463) and Owen goes against that 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 line 5-8 of the poem Anthem for Doomed Youth, Owen says, “There is no mockery now for them; no prayers or bells; Nor any voice of mourning save the choruses, the shrill, demented choruses of wailing shells; And trumpets calling them from sad counties. (poetryfoundation.org) and I think 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 trying to indirectly tell the readers not to send the boys to war because it's not what they think, it's a horrible nightmare. The reader experiences a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the men who died and for the men who are still in battle. It gives the reader something to think about in the