Owen's poems, published only after his death, along with his letters from the front line to his mother, are perhaps the most powerful and vivid accounts of the horror of war to emerge from the First World War. In one of his most well known poems, 'Dulce et Decorum est' Owen challenges the famous Latin saying by Horace which means that it is sweet and becoming to die for one's country. ... The poem is in four stanzas, in which the first stanza deals with the extreme condition of the exhausted soldiers. ... The Latin phrase at the end is fully integrated into the poem, rhy...

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William Golding was born in the village of St. Columb Minor on 19 September 1911. His father was a schoolmaster and his mother was a suffragette. He is considered to be one of the most important writers of the 20th century. He is famous for writing a book called "Lord of the Flies". When he was ...

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Churchill particularly liked to refer to other famous battles, poets, and leaders in British history, in order to instill a sense of pride in the British people. For example, in the "We Shall Fight on the Beaches" speech, he quotes Lord Alfred Tennyson's Morte Darthur poem; "Every morn brought forth a noble chance, And every chance brought forth a noble knight." ... Similarly, in his Harrow School speech, Churchill once again quotes a poem highly regarded in British heritage titled "If" by Rudyard Kipling. ... He quotes the poem saying that we must meet with, "Triumph and Disaster. ... ...

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