When the guns finally did fall silent, the German, Austrian, Russian empires collapsed, and the greater part of a generation of young men lay dead. ... In this poem he is saying if you die for your country you will be a true patriot. ... In "Dulce et decorum Est pro patria mori" describes a soldier dying of poison gas. ... The last two lines of this stanza describes the soldier dying, "Dim through the misty panes and thick green light, as under a green sea, I saw him drowning". ... Wilfred Owens use of half rhyme gives his poetry a disturbing quality that amplifies his themes, as i...

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