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Dulce et Decorum Est

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'''Dulce et Decorum Est''' is a celebrated poem of [[Wilfred Owen]] composed during [[World War I]]. Its title is a line from one of [[Horace]]'s odes, reading in full "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori", which means in [[Latin]] "sweet and fitting it is to die for one's country".
The poem depicts the horrors of fighting trench warfre during the first world war. It describes a gas attack on a trench, during the attack, another soldier failed to get his mask on in time, and so is killed by the deadly gas.
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