Read over Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" several times before class on Tuesday, January 7.
Owen joined the British army at the age of 21 when World War I broke out. He wrote this poem in 1917 and died at the age of 25 before the poem could be published.
Some of you will be required to do military service in your home countries in the next few years. Keep this in mind as you read this poem. Consider your own attitudes towards military service and patriotism. How do your attitudes towards these compare with Owen's?
Owen joined the British army at the age of 21 when World War I broke out. He wrote this poem in 1917 and died at the age of 25 before the poem could be published.
Some of you will be required to do military service in your home countries in the next few years. Keep this in mind as you read this poem. Consider your own attitudes towards military service and patriotism. How do your attitudes towards these compare with Owen's?