dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
Nothing much happened today, as it was another free day.
I guess I’ll enlighten you as to what I learned today.
Megan gave her culture report on WWI and how poetry was affected.
A simple synopsis would be that pre-war poetry used elevated language to highlight the romantic aspects of war, while after-war poetry used concrete imagery to depict the tragedy of its futility and fatality.
She read a poem by Wilfred Owen called dulce et decorum est pro patria mori; a throwback to those who called for the glory of war. In was written in the same old styling, but with imagery that could cure any mind of glorified pretense.
