<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524981" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 'Dulce Decorum Est' grim realities has Owen told? <br>Images he witness bore cut into nerve retina of eyeballs? <br>“Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind<br>Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots<br>Of tired, outstripped Five Nines that dropped behind.”</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Wilfred was a conscientious objector, who never believed <br>in war. Owen believed he had no right to protest against war, <br>if he had never fought in it. Wilfred wrote realistic anti-war </div><div style="margin:10px 0">poems. “Dulce et Decorum Est” is a protest against war.<br>The lie “Dulce et Decorum Est pro patria mori” Owen denounces<br>declaring it is not sweet and honourable to die for your country.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Stark grim dark is contrast between false lie and truth reality <br>powerfully in an account of friend dying soldier demonstrated <br>Symptoms of chlorine or phosgene gas are correctly described</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 'misty panes and thick green light, As under a green sea, I saw <br>him drowning' are accurate descriptions of poison gas covering battlefield Owen haunted by agony memory horrific deaths declares 'In all my dreams</div><div style="margin:10px 0">before my helpless sight He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning' attests. Words 'gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs describes, gassed lungs filled with fluid, producing similar effects, as when a person drowns </div><div style="margin:10px 0">in water. ‘Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! An ecstasy of fumbling’ intones<br>instant cinematic descriptive reality, suddenly reader you must bear witness, to secret scientific weapons research horrors humankinds worst deeds</div><div style="margin:10px 0">“If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace<br>Behind the wagon that we flung him in<br>And watch the white eyes writhing in his face, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">His hanging face, like a devil’s sick of sin, <br>If you could hear at every jolt, the blood<br>Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs (Owen declares) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My friend, you would not tell with such zest <br>The old lie: Dulce et Decorum Est pro patria mori” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">because it is not sweet nor honourable to die such deaths</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524981" data-title="Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori de Terence George Craddock" data-description="In 'Dulce Decorum Est' grim realities has Owen told? Images he witness bore cut into nerve retina of eyeballs? “Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots. But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind Drunk with fatigue; deaf even t..."></div> </div> </div>

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