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How does Wilfred Owen express his felling about the First World War in Anthem for doomed youth and Duke et decorum Est?  

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How does Wilfred Owen express his felling about the First World War in Anthem for doomed youth and Duke et decorum Est? Life in the trenches was horrific. The floor was lined with a foot of thick sludge that you were expected to sleep on. You had regular checks of your feet because you could be standing in the sludge all day and get a disease called 'Trench Foot' this is where all the nerves in your foot go numb and makes it very difficult for you to walk. The trenches were lined with dead bodies that were spreading disease around even more. There were rodents in the trenches eating the dead bodies and sometimes when you had just woken up from an uncomfortable nights sleep you would find rats nibbling at you. The Trenches were cut through battlefield fronts to protect troops from deadly artillery and machine-gun fire. Firing...

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