" In that poem, this phrase appears at the end of a stanza that wishes the reader would "watch the (*) white eyes writhing in his face /
This phrase is followed by a description of "death's darts flying overhead" in reference to Parthian tactics in the ode it originates from. Drafts of a work titled for this phrase written at Craiglockhart hospital were ironically dedicated to Jessie Pope. A work titled for this phrase imagines people "deaf even to the hoots" of "outstripped Five-Nines." In that poem, this phrase appears at the end of a stanza that wishes the reader would "watch the (*) white eyes writhing in his face / His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin." An "ecstasy of fumbling" is described in a poem titled for this phrase, which originates from an ode by Horace and is called an "old lie" to "children ardent for some desperate glory." For 10 points, Wilfred Owen titled an anti-war poem for what Latin phrase?
This phrase is followed by a description of "death's darts flying overhead" in reference to Parthian tactics in the ode
“Dulce et decorum est” [accept “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”; accept reasonable translations of the full phrase, such as “It is sweet and seemly to die for one’s country” or “What a joy, to die for the fatherland”] &lt;WA, Poetry&gt;