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Dulce et Decorum

his poetry

Wilfred Owen | Research Starter

" ... Owen was sent to the front in 1916, shortly after Christmas, with the Lancashire Fusiliers. That spring he fell into a shell hole and suffered a concussion that affected his nerves so that, on June 26, 1917, he was sent back to Craiglockhart Hospital, Edinburgh, where he met and became close to the poet Siegfried Sassoon, a sharp critic of the public illusions regarding the war. It was in the long talks with Sassoon that Owen reached his maturity as a poet. From that time on his poems—including, for example, "Dulce et Decorum Est"—toughened to the task of expressing with both bitterness and deep humanity the conditions and the waste, stupidity, and terror of war ... [Click here to read this research starter]

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