Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen

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context - Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen

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written in 1917 and published posthumously
died in WW1 in 1918 aged 25, mother informed by telegraph on day of armistice
met siegfried sasoon in craiglockhart hospital in edinburugh whilst being treated for ptsd - helped owen pursue his poetic career and help him write poems like this
wrote about heroism and pity of war, talks about horrors of war and criticises those who glorified it, and audience can relate
used Christian imagery, despite turning from faith
1917 diagnosed with shell-shock and trench fever
rhyming quatrains but lines are broken up
eye witness account