No, the speaker of Owen's poem would not agree with the idea that it is sweet and right to die for one's country.
The poem describes the horrors of war: the fear, the exhaustion, the suffering. The speaker wonders why people at home would support young men dying like this.
At the end of the poem, the speaker says the idea that it is sweet and right to die for one's country is "the old Lie."
Answer:
Review the source material as you summarize it. Identify the main idea and restate it as concisely as you can—preferably in one sentence.
Examples of symbols in the story include roads, which are metaphors for life paths and choices and the symbols provided by the descriptions of nature in the poem which are metaphors for the times in people's lives (specifically when they are making large life choices).
These figurative nature of the roads and the descriptions of the natural world in the setting allow the reader of the poem to infer that the poem is not "actually" about roads in the woods, but about the ways that our choice of life path can affect things.
Answer:
My best answer is boorish, though I don't know
Explanation:
Literally no idea.
