This poem was written in response to a poem which asks, "Who'll grip and tackle the job unafraid? / And who thinks he'd rather sit tight?" titled "Who's for the game." It mentions men who "marched asleep" towards their "distant rest" before "All went
This poem was written in response to a poem which asks, "Who'll grip and tackle the job unafraid? / And who thinks he'd rather sit tight?" titled "Who's for the game." It mentions men who "marched asleep" towards their "distant rest" before "All went lame; all blind." In its second stanza, an "ecstasy of fumbling" precedes the sight of a man "yelling and stumbling" through "thick green light" and "flound'ring like a man in fire or lime." In this poem's third stanza, the speaker claims that "If you could hear...the blood / Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs," then "My friend, you would not tell...The old Lie" of the title. For 10 points, name this poem about a gas attack on retreating infantrymen by Wilfred Owen, whose title is a quotation from Horace.
This poem was written in response to a poem which asks, "Who'll grip and tackle the job unafraid? /
"Dulce et Decorum Est"