The speaker of this poem describes men who are "deaf even to the hoots/Of tired, outstripped Five Nines." Those shells lead to an "ecstasy of fumbling," after which the speaker sees "as [if] under a g
The speaker of this poem describes men who are "deaf even to the hoots/Of tired, outstripped Five Nines." Those shells lead to an "ecstasy of fumbling," after which the speaker sees "as [if] under a green sea" a man "drowning" with blood "gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs." This scene makes the speaker admonish the reader to not "tell with such high zest" the title phrase. FTP what poem by Wilfred Owen describes as "that old lie" a Latin phrase that means "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."
The speaker of this poem describes men who are "deaf even to the hoots/
"Dulce et Decorum Est"