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Dulce Et Decorum Pro Patria Mori. "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" Sticker for Sale by Archiedawg55 Redbubble Eliot's more famous The Waste Land in a number of interesting ways Notes: Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."

By Wilfred Owen (read by Michael Stuhlbarg) Listen now Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - see note 1 above

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Notes: Latin phrase is from the Roman poet Horace: "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country." "Dulce et Decorum Est" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920 The ideal book for students getting to grips with the poetry of the First World War

"Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori" Sticker by BeakHouse Redbubble. In the last paragraph, Owen condenses the poem to an almost claustrophobic pace: 'if in some smothering dreams, you too could pace', and he goes into a very graphic, horrific description of the suffering that victims of mustard gas endured: 'froth-corrupted lungs," incurable sores. These notes are taken from the book, Out in the Dark, Poetry of the First World War, where other war poems that need special explanations are similarly annotated

Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori Digital Art by Vidddie Publyshd Fine Art America. Just three years after Owen drafted 'Dulce et Decorum Est', the modernist poet Ezra Pound (1885-1972) wrote Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), a remarkable long poem which anticipates T Owen alludes to Odes in order to juxtapose pro-war patriotism with the actual lived experiences of soldiers fighting for their country