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In the poem Dulce et Decorum Est How does the speaker feel about war and its cause, especially since he might die for it?

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The author thinks that war is a tragic senseless waste of humanity:

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,— 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.