War Poetry Quotes Flashcards
Identification + Sub-Themes
“Men marched asleep.”
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Suffering, (Unaware of their danger)
“He plunges at me, In all my helpless sight, guttering, choking, drowning.”
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Hopeless
“The Old Lie, Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro Patria Mori.”
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Lies
“Richer Dust”
The Soldier
“Broken bird’s egg of a skull”
Mametz Wood
Life & Death
“Skeletons paused mid dance”
Mametz Wood
Violence, Time
“Wasted Young”
Mametz Wood
Injustice
“England Bore”
Soldier
Patriotism
“Her flowers”
Soldier
Patriotism
“That in some corner of a foreign field, that is forever England”
Soldier
Patriotism
“This field where they were told to walk, not run”
Mametz Wood
DIrect reference to context, War the poem was based off of.
“Those jaws, those that have them,”
Mametz Wood
Violence
“The notes they have sung have only now, with this unearthing, slipped from their absent tongues.”
Mametz Wood
Forgotten, Stories, ETC
“A broken mosaic of bone, linked arm in arm.”
Mametz Wood
“The earth stands sentinel,”
Mametz Wood
Protection, War
