Wilfred Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est - Full Lecture and Analysis by Dr. Andrew Barker

Click for transcript and notes of the lecture and analyis above. Arguably the greatest anti-war poem to date, “Dulce Et Decorum Est“ was composed near the end of the First World War by a poet who had actually experienced the horrors of the trenches. Owen gives us the reality behind the wartime recruiting phrase, “It is sweet and fitting to die for your country“, as he recounts a friend’s death during a gas attack. It contains, for me, some of the most powerful moments in poetry: “I