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Wilfred Owen wrote "Dulce et Decorum Est" based on his experience in the trenches of World War I. In 1917 he wrote to his mother from a military hospital describing a new "gas poem." The poem was published posthumously in 1920 after Owen was killed in action just before the war ended. Through vivid language depicting the soldiers as "bent," "beggars," and "hags," Owen conveys the harsh reality of trench warfare and challenges the notion that it is sweet and honorable to die for one

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