Wilfred Owen, a poet of the World War I period, described in the lines below his attitude after seeing a friend gag in a green field of gas fumes during an enemy gas attack. Owen himself was killed in action a week before the armistice but left a legacy of poems that decried the futility and horror of war.<\/p>\n
\u2026<\/p>\n
If in some smothered dreams, you too could pace<\/p>\n
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,<\/p>\n
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face.<\/p>\n
His hanging face, like a devil\u2019s sick of sin;<\/p>\n
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood<\/p>\n
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,<\/p>\n
Bitter as the cud<\/p>\n
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues\u2014<\/p>\n
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest,<\/p>\n
To children ardent for some desperate glory,<\/p>\n
The old lie: Dulce et decorum est<\/i><\/p>\n
Pro patria mori.*<\/i><\/p>\n
[*\u201cSweet and fitting it is to die for one\u2019s country,\u201d Horace]1451<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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