Wilfred Owen
soldier · poet · Britain · the front in France · 1893–1918
A soldier who went to the First World War as an officer and wrote poems of what he saw in the trenches. He was killed at twenty-five, a week before the war ended.
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1917 (published 1920) · After seeing a soldier go down in a gas attack
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children ardent for some desperate glory, The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.
"Dulce et Decorum Est"
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