Lest We Forget...
...that war is hideous, my reading of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est," not just one of the greatest war poems ever written, but one of the most haunting poems of any sort in English.
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2 comments:
A very good, confident reading. Not easy, given one's distance from the subject matter.
Thanks, Roland. Having read the poem several dozen times doesn't hurt.
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