Question

Refer to Explorations in Literature for a complete version of this poem.

Answer 1

Answer:

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood 

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs, 

Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory, 

The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est 

Pro patria mori.

(((The poet rebukes readers for their mistaken belief that war is glorious)))

Answer 2

Answer:

These lines evoke a sense of the time and place in which this poem is set because The words marched and boots, along with the reference to "gas-shells dropping," indicate that the poem takes place during WWI and is set near a battlefield.

Explanation:

"Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen is a poem that was written during World War I and has several keywords that make clear this reference to the reader, this poem creates a visual and emotional mental picture of people during war times, these lines focus specifically on the words "marched", "boots" and "gas-shells dropping,"