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Dulce et Decorum est. By Wilfred Owen 'Bent double, like old beggars under sacks' Voted the nation's eighth most popular poem of all time, 'Dulce et Decorum est.,' is one of the most bitterly truthful pieces of literature about war. It was written in 1917 by Wilfred Owen in Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh, where he was receiving treatment for shell-shock after serving in the trenches in the Somme and in St Quentin. Owen had been writing poetry for many years but had little confidence in his work, until he met Siegfried Sassoon, a fellow patient at the hospital and a famous poet. Sassoon encouraged Owen to write more direct poems, using everyday speech, and to openly express the anger and disgust he felt at the callous spending of soldiers' lives by people safe in London. 'Dulce et decorum est. Pro patria mori,' the Latin 'tag' was written by the Roman poet Horace, and...

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