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
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"