{"id":1668,"date":"2025-12-05T21:14:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2025-12-05T21:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T21:16:11","slug":"evelynes-reading-of-owens-dulce-et-decorum-est","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/litgreatwarf25.themanger.net\/?p=1668","title":{"rendered":"Evelyne&#8217;s Reading of Owen&#8217;s &#8220;Dulce Et Decorum Est&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Evelyne Breed Poetry Project\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1GIM-Ay3MYI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I chose Owen&#8217;s &#8220;Dulce Et Decorum Est&#8221; because of two specific phrases that spoke to me. The first connection I made to this poem was a personal one. Owen&#8217;s description of the soldier who died of gas and subsequently haunted his dreams was reminiscent of my own nightmares throughout this course. While I haven&#8217;t seen men &#8220;[plunging] at me, guttering, choking, drowning,&#8221; I have experienced Nellie&#8217;s endless parade of broken men as I try to fall asleep. They are &#8220;in all my dreams before my helpless sight.&#8221; I wish I could undo the pain and suffering people experienced during the Great War, but I am unable to change the past. I&#8217;m helpless. This course has affected me emotionally far more than I thought it would, and it will likely take me some time for the nightmares to leave me fully. My experience is nothing compared to Owen&#8217;s, or indeed of anyone who has been impacted by war, but I empathize with his nightmares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second phrase in this poem that stuck out to me was the ending, which reads &#8220;the old Lie: <em>Dulce et decorum est \/ Pro patria mori<\/em>.&#8221; Throughout the semester, we&#8217;ve seen a theme of disillusionment in the works we&#8217;ve read. The disillusionment is almost always related to patriotism. Most of the characters who espouse patriotic views are from the home front (with the exception of the BF), where they don&#8217;t know the extent of the suffering their troops and medical workers are going through. Similarly, the patriotic writers we&#8217;ve read (for example, Kipling) did not actually fight. I, too, was disillusioned throughout this course; I&#8217;d thought the Great War was a time of suffering but I did not know the true horror of the battlefield. It is not sweet and fitting to die for one&#8217;s country. No one should have to go through the pain and suffering of war. Owen&#8217;s poem describes a key theme of the larger literary canon of the Great War very concisely and convincingly.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chose Owen&#8217;s &#8220;Dulce Et Decorum Est&#8221; because of two specific phrases that spoke to me. The first connection I made to this poem was a personal one. 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