Wilfred Owen had called it “the old lie”, as together with other doomed youth he stepped onto the front line in France, during World War I. The meaning of such an anti-war poem became even ...

He was also a member of the Youth Parliament Pakistan. Meiryum Ali August 11, 2010 facebooktwitterwhatsuplinkdedemail Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori - how sweet to die for your country ...

If you love good films, like to read history and enjoy literature, you must be familiar with three big names: Rudyard Kipling, Michael Collins, and T E Lawrence — aka Lawrence of Arabia. They ...

In 1917, Owen would have understood, "Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori" as something like, "It is beautiful and right that one should die for one's country." ...

So I hear young people … talking about things they could only have heard from us. And we need to think about the damage we’re doing in all of that.” Fine words are not enough, when the real underlying ...

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Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. This is a line from the Roman lyrical poet Horace’s Odes, which can be roughly translated into English as “It is sweet and glorious to die for one’s own ...

"It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country." Written by the Roman poet Horace in the first century BC, those words receive my full endorsement. I am neither a jingoist nor a warmonger. I just ...

About the poem Wilfred Owen's most famous piece “Dulce et decorum est” was originally drafted in October 1917 while he lay recovering from shellshock at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh.

So I hear young people … talking about things they could only have heard from us. And we need to think about the damage we’re doing in all of that.” Fine words are not enough, when the real underlying ...