Perspectives
To enhance your understanding of “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, we will provide you with some points and questions concerning the text and the autho…
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Literary perspective
Wilfred Owen died on the front in World War I, and most of his poems were published posthumously. Apart from “Dulce et Decorum Est”, three of his other poems are widely known: “Insensibility”, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, and “Futility”. As their titles suggest, these poems…
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Social perspective
Why do you think WWI left such a strong mark on its survivors? Do you think it was because of the new weapons and warfare technologies like chorine gas? Or because of the huge number of deaths that occurred every day? Perhaps it was also because the young generation of 1914 had not been accustomed to…