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11-20-09. Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori. Translation “it is sweet and right to die for your country.”. Dulce Et Decorum Est -Wilfred Owen.

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11-20-09

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  1. 11-20-09 Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori. Translation “it is sweet and right to die for your country.”

  2. Dulce Et Decorum Est -Wilfred Owen

  3. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,Till on the haunting flares we turned our backsAnd towards our distant rest began to trudge.Men marched asleep. Many had lost their bootsBut limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hootsOf disappointed shells that dropped behind.

  4. GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;But someone still was yelling out and stumblingAnd floundering like a man in fire or lime.--Dim, through the misty panes and thick green lightAs under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

  5. In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

  6. If in some smothering dreams you too could paceBehind the wagon that we flung him in,And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;If you could hear, at every jolt, the bloodCome gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cudOf vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--My friend, you would not tell with such high zestTo children ardent for some desperate glory,The old Lie: Dulce et decorum estPro patria mori.

  7. Dulce Et Decorum Est means “it is sweet and right to die for your country.” In other words, it is a wonderful and great honour to fight and die for your country. • The words were widely understood and often quoted at the start of the First World War. • How does Wilfred Owen use the words? • Why does he call them “The old Lie”?

  8. Art Project • Over the break, create a poster that shows the imagery of the poem. You may draw your pictures or make a college of pictures from the internet. • Due Monday November 30th. The day you get back.

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