4th Stanza

Question 1

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind 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 blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,—
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro Patria mori.

Answer 1

4th verse.

Question 2

“you”

Answer 2

Directed at Jesse Pope and people like her also to the reader - war is not a beautiful thing.

Question 3

“flung”

Answer 3

Connotations of careless, lack of respect, men need to save themselves and have become desensitised.

Question 4

Repetition of “face”

Answer 4

Imprinted in Owen’s mind he can’t forget this.

Question 5

“Writhing”

Answer 5

Twisting, almost trying to escape his body

Question 6

“like a devil’s sick of sin”

Answer 6

Worst thing ever, even the devil can’t abide it.

Question 7

“gargling”

Answer 7

onomatopoeia - we heard the horrific sounds he heard.

Question 8

“froth-corrupted lungs”

Answer 8

Coughing up his lungs, connotations of froth - a mass of small bubbles forming in his lungs.

Question 9

“Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues”

Answer 9

Grim horrific expressions, they didn’t know they would die like this, they don’t deserve this.

Question 10

“The old Lie”

Answer 10

Dispels the myth “Dulce et decorum est

Pro Patria mori.”. Shows them what truly happens and that war is not a beautiful thing.