Compare the language used in Sassoon's " 'They' " and Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" with reference to how these poems parody and challenge traditional jingoistic ideas about the value of war.

Reference could be made to the Bishop in Sassoon's poem disregarding the soldiers' reference to their severe injuries - " 'the ways of God are strange!' ". The soldiers refer to the changes they have undergone in terms of the physical ailments the war has burdened them with, while the Bishop is more preoccupied with the mental change they will have undergone from "[fighting] / In a just cause". His jingoistic attitudes are shown in his reference to the army "[leading] the last attack / On Anti-Christ", from which it can be inferred that he is dehumanising the opposing forces by linking them to a rejection of Christianity - a student might connect the Bishop's attitude to ideas throughout history whereby wars were justified by members of the political establishment, the higher ranks of the army, etc. by implying that God was on the side of those that fought on a certain side, in order to persuade combatants that they were fulfilling religious duty by enlisting in the war effort. In Owen's poem, he mocks the idea that war is glorious and just by reflecting on the violent and sad death of a soldier in a poison gas attack and linking this to his own disbelief at "the old Lie: Dulce et decorum est / Pro patria mori" (a Latin poetic phrase attributed to Horace, roughly translating as "it is sweet and proper to die for one's country"). For Owen, the idea that war is morally just and that a proper, fitting death is one which occurs on the battlefield is exposed as a lie in the technologically assisted horror of modern war, where death is just as likely to come in a manner in which the dying man did not, or could not, express courage, or moral fibre at the moment of his death. Rather, death in the First World War is exposed as sudden, random and cruel, and is hard to relate to the ideals of chivalry and honour "the old Lie" is used to invoke.