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dulce et decorum est and
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Pre-post 1914 poetry course work (Dulce et Decorum Est and The Last of the Light Brigade) One of the poems I studied was a poem called Dulce Et Decorum Est. The poem was written in 8th of October to March 1918 by Wilfred Owen. This poem is about a company of men in World War 2 who are trudging on and seem to be tired and old. They then get attacked by gas and one of the men can't get his mask on in time. The poet explains how it is not 'sweet and right to die for your country' because of the horrors of war. The other poem is called The Last of the Light Brigade. This poem was written in 1891 by Kipling. This poem is about how after the Crimean War the soldiers of the light brigade were forgotten so they went to a writer and asked...
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