Dulce Et Decorum Est

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Dulce Et Decorum Est

By Wilfred Owen

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- Without looking at the poem, listen first to actor Christopher Eccleston read the poem

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Exercise 25: Owen’s poem consists of three separate parts. What is each stanza about?

Exercise 26: What technique is used to visualise that the men are slow and exhausted?

Exercise 27: What, do you think, is meant by the following two figures of speech in the poem: ‘disappointed shells’ (l. 9) and ‘a green sea’ (l. 16)?

Exercise 28: The concept of ‘dream’ is used twice, in lines 18 and 21, in different situations. How are these dreams different and whose dreams are they?