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Pre-1914 Poetry Coursework
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Pre-1914 Poetry Coursework Irony forms the basis of Owens "Dulce et Decorum Est". Discuss this concept with reference to at least two other poems you have studied. There was a time when the notion that society is more important than the individual was firmly held. The root of such opinion can be traced to the Roman poet Horace with the line "dulce et decorum est pro patria mori". Rupert Brooke's sonnets abound with the thought that fighting a noble war and the subsequent honour that will surround one's death. However, attitudes were beginning to shift, and poets such as Charles Sorley and Wilfred Owen, who would attack this misplaced patriotism, set about exposing the cruel lie behind the propaganda. The poems that I am going to discuss here are "Dulce et Decorum Est", by Wilfred Owen, " The Soldier" written by Rupert Brook and "The Sonnet" by Charles Hamilton Sorley. Their works show the...
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