LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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Brooke’s inclusion of a quotation from Horace in these lines serves to emphasize the distance between the ideals of Western civilization and its realities.
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These lines suggest the author’s anger and disillusionment with cultural norms which glorify war.
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In these lines, Brooke seeks to bridge the gap between individual experience and cultural norms and beliefs.
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All of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -’Dulce et Decorum Est’ or, to give the phrase in full: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Latin for ‘it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country’ (patria is where we get our word ‘patriotic’ from).
Detailed explanation-2: -The Horror and Trauma of War Wilfred Owen wrote “Dulce et Decorum Est” while he was fighting as a soldier during World War I. The poem graphically and bitterly describes the horrors of that war in particular, although it also implicitly speaks of the horror of all wars.
Detailed explanation-3: -The line translates: “It is sweet and proper to die for one’s country.” The Latin word patria (homeland), literally meaning the country of one’s fathers (in Latin, patres) or ancestors, is the source of the French word for a country, patrie, and of the English word “patriot” (one who loves their country).
Detailed explanation-4: -Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori – or the “old Lie”, as Owen describes it – is a quotation from the Odes of the Roman poet Horace, in which it is claimed that “it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country”.