Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfried Owen Flashcards

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When was this poem written?

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1917.

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When did Wilfried Owen die?

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in 1918, a week before the war ended

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What is the meaning of the poem?

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That it is ‘not sweet and fitting to die for ones country’

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Why did Owen have to go to hospital in 1917?

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He was suffering from shell shock.

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