Dulce Flashcards
1
Q
What year
A
1918
2
Q
Hope did he die
A
WW1 suffering/death in a chlorine gas attack
3
Q
What was the point of this poem
A
Written to oppose the propaganda of patriotic, jingoistic poems (by Jessie Pope) encouraging young men that going to war was brave.
4
Q
What did Owen experience
A
Owen witnessed first-hand warfare at the Front; suffered trauma seeing many young men killed; and died a week before the end of the war – his poems published posthumously.
5
Q
What were Owen’s thoughts
A
Owen: “My subject is War, and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in the pity.” (Preface to his poems)
