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search  Dulce et Decorum est is a poem written by poet Wilfred
Owen in 1917, during World War I, and published posthumously in
1920. Owen's poem is known for its horrific imagery and
condemnation of war. It was drafted at Craiglockhart in the
first half of October 1917 and later revised, probably at
Scarborough but possibly Ripon, between January and March 1918.
The earliest surviving manuscript is dated 8 October 1917 and
addressed to his mother, Susan Owen, with the message "Here is a
gas poem done yesterday, (which is not private, but not final)".
Formally, the poem can be understood as the combination of two
sonnets, though the spacing of the stanzas is
irregular.[citation needed] The text presents a vignette from
the front lines of World War I; specifically, of British
soldiers attacked with chlorine gas. In the rush when the shells
with poison gas explode, one soldier is unable to