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DULCE ET DECORUM EST Flashcards

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Poet / date

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Wilfred Owen / 1917

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Historical contex

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  • During and about WWI
  • Owen had firsthand experience of war
  • Died a week before armistice day
  • Spent time in Craiglockhart hospital, a mental asylum after a mental breakdown
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Literary context

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  • Reposte to jingoistic poets like Jessie Pope who glorified the war
  • Fragmetnary sonnet / title reflects disintegrating faith in war and mental states of soldiers
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Form and strucutre

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  • Four irregular stanzas
  • First two form irregular sonnets
  • Second two are looser in strucutre illuminating disintegration
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Link to?

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  • London? -> Harsh reality of glorified life
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Themes???

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  • Portrays harsh realities of war
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