1. Humanities 30Dulce et decorum est visual By: Laramie Sissons

2. If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

3. And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, like a devils sick of sin;

4. If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood Come gargling from froth- corrupted lungs

5. 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

6. Citations All images courtesy of Corbis Images Bombs Away! Poster by Cecil Calvert BeallIMAGE:© K.J. Historical/CorbisCREATORNAMECecil Calvert BeallDATE CREATED1944 Just Meet Those Schedules, Will You? Poster by Harry Morse Meyers IMAGE:© K.J. Historical/Corbis CREATOR NAME Harry Morse Meyers DATE CREATED1944 Wings Over America Poster by Tom WoodburyIMAGE:© David Pollack/K.J. Historical/CorbisCREATORNAMETomWoodburyDATECREATEDca. 1918 Buy War Bonds Poster by Ferdinand WarrenIMAGE:© Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBISCREATOR NAME Ferdinand E. Warren DATE CREATED1942 ...Pass the Ammunition - O.K. Soldier - That's Our Job! Poster by Frederic StanleyIMAGE:© Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBISCREATOR NAMEFredericStanleyDATECREATEDca. 1941-1945 Boys Come Over Here You're Wanted Recruitment PosterIMAGE:© Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBIS My Girl's a WOW Poster by Adolph Treidler IMAGE:© K.J. Historical/CREATED1943 Signal Corps Recruitment Poster by JesSchlaikjer IMAGE:© Swim Ink 2, LLC/CORBISCREATOR NAME JesSchlaikjer DATE CREATED1942

7. Explanation Throughout my visual I feel that the message I am trying to portray is evident. The war posters would have been a form of propaganda that young men would have seen before they went to battle. This is what the images of war looked like while these men were safe at home, this is what they believed they would experience when thrust onto the front line. However this was seldom the case, these men quickly realized the true perils of war and what the realities of intense combat were. If the posters portrayed the real scenes of battle they might look something like the black and white images in my project. I feel the contrast between both sets of images captures the true irony as well as the tragic sarcasm that comes forth upon reading the poem we were assigned.