Advantages: Very compelling and moving Disadvantages: None really
Wilfred Owen, born in 1893, was one of many British soldiers in the trenches of World War I. Of the many poems he wrote during that time, Dulce et Decorum Est is one of his most powerful and most famous. It tells of one particular experience he had during the war in which there is a gas attack and one of his fellow soldiers dies after being too late putting his gas mask on. Owen recalls the events bitterly, and in his poem he describes the futility and the waste of war. The main thing that Owen is bitter about is the fact that young men are persuaded to join the army by propaganda stating that it is an honour for a soldier to die for his country, when in fact the reality is much different. Nobody is told of the real horrors of war and the fear, pain and remorse that is felt on the front line every day.
The poem itself has a very ...
CC2000 14.11.2002 (15.11.2002)
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Advantages: Easy to visit from Britain Disadvantages: Thoroughly depressing
's behavour. Some saw him as a cold-blooded butcher who had no regard for his troops welfare. Others thought that he had the measure of the situation and realised that this was a war of attrition and whoever had the last man standing, would be the victor.
Me? I think he was a blinkered, obstinate fool who couldn't admit when he'd made a mistake and doggedly stuck to the task, no matter what.
Of course, it wasn't as black and white as that...it never is. But a war leader who can't change his plans and adapt to changing situations doesn't command my respect.
* THIEPVAL MEMORIAL *
The hill, village and what was the chateau of Thiepval formed an important defensive position of the German lines and was known as The Leipzig Salient. Some of the worst slaughter occurred around here.
The Memorial was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens ...
proxam 10.11.2002 (11.11.2004)
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