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Abdullah Alomar

Professor, Pamela

HUM-110

Sep 28/2015

Francisco de Goya’s painting The Colossus is a dark painting that indicates da Goya’s use

of color in painting and produces a picture of the horrors rather than the honors of war and

encourages people to see war as alien to human beings.

In other words, The Colossus is a visual experience of Wilfred Owen’s poem Dulce et

Decorum Est and encourages people to try to abandon wars as a way to settle conflicts.

The argument can be made that this visual has little to do with Owen’s poem, but I will

show that the huge colossus in the middle of the painting shows what cause the horrors in

Owen’s poem.