Wilfred Owen's War Poems Help!

[2014year12]

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!

[Foe]

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.