"Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen and "The Hero" by Siegfried Sassoon.
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Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Bilinga Youth Literacy Festival, today I will be talking about two of the greatest poems about war, by two of the greatest war poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. First I would like to talk a bit about the backgrounds of the two poets so that when I'm finished you may decide whether this poetry is still relevant to modern youth.
The first poet I would …
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…true. And of course the average Englishman will hate it" - shaping a distance between the 'averages' and 'those who know better'. Today the Officer in the poem would be described as a decent man although he did lie to jacks mother; he did it to make her happy and proud of her son. I believe the poem would be accepted more easily today than it was back in 1917 when the poem was first printed.
…true. And of course the average Englishman will hate it" - shaping a distance between the 'averages' and 'those who know better'. Today the Officer in the poem would be described as a decent man although he did lie to jacks mother; he did it to make her happy and proud of her son. I believe the poem would be accepted more easily today than it was back in 1917 when the poem was first printed.
