Everything you need to understand or teach Dulce Et Decorum Est (Owen) by Wilfred Owen.
“Dulce et Decorum Est” is a four-stanza war poem in modified iambic pentameter by English poet and soldier Wilfred Owen. Originally drafted in 1917, it was first published posthumously in the 1920 collection Poems following Owen’s untimely death in battle shortly before the end of the First World War. Based on his experience of a chlorine gas attack, “Dulce et Decorum Est” is regarded as one of the definitive poems of World War I. In a world that feels perpetually poised on the brink of hostilities, Owen’s haunting imagery and explicit disavowal of the brutal realities of war continue to resonate with readers.
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