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VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: 2014year12 on February 27, 2014, 10:44:49 pm
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Hey everyone,
I'm struggling to find quotes in relation to Wilfred Owen blaming authorities for encouraging people to go to war.
At the moment I only have two which I can relate, which are:
"The old lie; Dulce Et Decorum Est, Pro patria mori"
And
"Courage was mine, and I had mystery;
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery;
To miss the march of this retreating world."
I would like a few more examples but can't seem to thread out any more from the poems I have studied...
Which are: Dulce, Disabled, The Sentry, Futility, I Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson, Strange Meeting and Mental Cases.
If any one has any other quotes/examples in regards to the blame on authority in The War Poems I would be very thankful!
Thanks in advance!
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I think the final lines from The Parable Of The Old Man And The Young might help you. Not quite encouraging but certainly blaming:
"But the old man would not so, but slew his son,
And half the seed of Europe, one by one."
And in Disabled:
"He asked to join. He didn't have to beg;
Smiling they wrote his lie; aged nineteen years."
This shows that they were willing to break laws to have younger kids fight the war.