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Dulce et Decorum Est

by Wilfred Owen

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Dulce et Decorum Est

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen targets poets like Jessie Pope, who promoted war as noble. Owen, a soldier who experienced World War I's horrors, uses a speaker embittered by witnessing a...

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Dulce et Decorum Est

Wilfred Owen's "Dulce Et Decorum Est" influenced the Modernist movement by exposing the harsh realities of World War I, contrasting romanticized notions of war with brutal truth. The poem's vivid...

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