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Poetry Comparison between "Dulce est decorum est" and the "dead"
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Poetry Comparison between "Dulce est decorum est" and the "dead" Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th of March 1893 in Oswestry (United Kingdom). He was the eldest of four children and brought up in the Anglican religion of the evangelical school. He enlisted in the Artists' Rifles on 21st October 1915 and there followed 14 months of training in England. He was called up and sent to France in 1917, the worst winter of the war. His total war experience was rather short: four months, from which only five weeks were spent in the line. On this is based all his war poetry. After battle experience, thoroughly shocked by horrors of war, he went to Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh. These two poems share the same theme of war. However they approach war from completely different perspectives. Dulce Est Decorum est illustrates the futility of war where as the dead...
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