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Trace the History of the "Old Lie" - The term the "Old Lie" was used by Wilfred Owen in his poem "Dulce et Decorum Est".
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Trace the History of the "Old Lie" The term the "Old Lie" was used by Wilfred Owen in his poem "Dulce et Decorum Est" to describe what he thought of the motto "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" which translates litteraly as "it is sweet and honourable to die for ones country". This motto was written by a famous roman poet called Horace in a poem called Odes. When Horace wrote his poem war was fought with hand to hand combat and so the best soldier would normally win. By the time that Owen wrote his poems it was a new era of warfare and it was possible for the best-trained soldier to be killed by a gas shell fired from many miles away by an enemy who could not even see him. Because of this war had become unfair. When Alfred Lord Tennyson wrote his poem "The Charge Of...
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