DULCE ET DECORUM EST

[ooo1309]

Sign, this is amazing.

[ninacat88]

I adore this poem. It's beautiful. So haunting and gives me the goosebumps every single time. Those who have posted really bad comments need to take a good look at themselves.

[HopeWithPandora]

After 42 yrs...first of many!!!

[TehAntt]

We studied thsi in year 8.

[Oredan22]

I found that the animation was quite crude and the music didn't really capture the poem. It was a good attempt but It wasn't a strong portrayal of the poem.

[springrobin]

Oh my gosh who is doing the reading of this, in the film not the commentator, I love it! ... please anyone??? His name is on the tip of my tongue & it's driving me crazy...

[madmum23]

@springrobin i think its Samuel Barnett in the film...

[Solarissis]

That poem is beautiful

[1goldendude]

an inspirational poem

[1goldendude]

an inspirational poem

[vaughan4082]

reminds me of blackadder goes 4th lol but  baldrick is a better poet lol

[kowst]

I haven't read any of the hateful comments below but I read the two most popular ones above and have to say that I had no idea that Wilfred Owen was gay, and to be honest don't care. His personal life is not the point, it's the beauty in his words. In summary, I'd like to add the possibly inflammatory comment:

"FUCK OFF GAYBASHERS! SEXUALITY DOES NOT AFFECT PROSE"

[marcbolanfan]

this program is so great

[AndaTuraa]

The best reading of this poem can be heard in the 'In Flanders Fields' museum (Ypres). All the others mostly aren't that good.

[PTCello]

I have heard several folks reading this poem and everyone is terrible. the poem is magnificent, but the readers all have no idea how to read it.

I like this commentary very much, but the actual read is wretched

[giannivee1]

It was because of the vile, cruel, horrible trenches that these veterans in their forties, who now had families, were so reluctant to enter World War II. Americans weren't cowards, they just remember what a World War coud do, and it would refuse to fight as hard as it could. When America was forced into World War II, it did so totally understanding of the Great War! No generation ever has ever agreed to fight a war knowing so well what its cost would be. God Bless them all!!

[Blakebaby23]

I have written for as long as I can remember. I have never read anything as profound as the poetry of the great war. It is impossible to overestimate this work. We live in a blinded age to humanity. When it comes down its all about life and death. Forget addictions and anorexia etc. This is the real deal. Right or wrong. This is it...

[bolderiks]

@Blakebaby23 Its easy to drop conclusions on the human race while sitting on a soft sofa and a cup of tea within reach. Please never tell these kind of nonsens to the ones who fight their own battles in the zone somewhere between life and death. Dying is and never will be an elegant thing, after all there's no such thing as the olympics for the most horrible way of dying. As if it is some kind of contest fgs.

[nikoli46]

THANKS TO EVERY ALLIE THAT DIED TRYING TO GIVE US OUR FREEDOM AND WITH OUR LIVES AND FREEDOM THEIR MEMORIES WILL LIVE.......if that makes any sence to any1 please tell me

[EbsNhexz]

@nikoli46 I think freedom was at stake in WW2. But the stupid pride of old men was what spawned the Great War. All of the men of both opposing sides who fought and died in the conflict were Heroes and should be remembered as such. The greed and ignorance of those who wasted their lives in a pointless war should be regarded as crimes against humanity. The only victory to be gained from the Great War is the hope that such a tragedy will never happen again.

[thelad101]

Turn off the 'embedding disabled' - I want to link to this from another website but your present settings won't allow. Thanks.

[joshjosh1996]

It's not brave or fitting to die for your country - it's horrible! The Goverment is so brainwashing.

[elektrikalex]

@joshjosh1996 That's why it's referred to as 'The old lie' in the poem.

[dashpoet]

This was the one that got me started, the only poem that grabbed my attention at school. Great to hear it again - strong stuff!

[CheekyChinchillas4]

same here :)

[trisha3397]

I came here to watch and listen to this amazing poem, when i read thro the post im astounded by some peoples coments...

This is an amazing, breath taking and heart felt Poem about young men- some too young to even be called men. Thay fought and died in some of the most harrowing condition known to man.

What century are we living in for god sake. Whats important here?. thousands of people dying and 1 man speaking so truethfully and so sorrowfully about it or that the same man was gay.

[Insperato62]

Some of you have serious problems. Homophobic doesn't begin to cover it! Downright nasty & ill informed. So Owen was homosexual - that's not the proclivity of the 'Officer Class'! Records show his men were impressed with him (even if he was a poof). Whilst huge numbers were killed in WW1 the Officer Class suffered most - it's been assessed it lost 30% of it's young men. That left a vast number of young widows, not to mention women who would never meet an eligible man & have children ....

[kwurly]

This poem is so moving. I'm glad that I got to study some of his amazing work! :)

[mcrxtillxixdie]

What a hard hitting poem. Very real.

[shezz0123]

his poetry is rele kl, i studies it from my english literature a-level last term. i miss it :(

[Herobelle]

There is no concrete proof of him being either hetero-, homo-, or bi-sexual. Can we just leave his sexuality out of it, please?

[MaikuxSAN]

OK. So he was gay, big deal. If anything, it made his work better and it proves that homosexuals should be allowed to serve in the armed forces. It also proves that you can be gay and still be masculine.

[501135127]

I think the most powerful ever reading of this poem comes from the Flanders WW1 Memorial, with the tubes of green gasmasks and the hauntingly empty voice.

It could've just been me because I went after visiting Tyne Cot on Langmark, but when I was there, I wasn't far off tears.

[rosygirl52]

I agree completely, I also went there after visiting Tyne Cot and found it a very moving experience.

[sophyloo]

you know some people reckon that if u r queer it makes you more creative...

[SassoonOwen]

Who the hell cares about his sexuality? It has no bearing on the beauty of his poetry and work. I wish people would realize that.

[jezzeronthecoast]

right queer and WW1 english officer! an't they the same thing!

[snooked]

No. I bet you think Gallipoli and Braveheart are in some way factual.

[TakehikoKun]

Yeah, thats funny..

Take the piss out of some of the bravest and most daring officers fielded by any nation in what was our country's most deadly conflict.

I bet you've never been anywhere near a firefight...

[haggis95]

He was more of man than you'll ever be.

[dabsy71]

I love Wifred, but I hope you all know ..He was a right queer and no mistake.

[starlakid]

Indeed,

As was Rupert Brooke, Siegfried Sassoon, Tennyson, Byron, E.M Forster, Evelyn Waugh, T.E Lawrence (of Arabia), W.H Auden, D.H Laurence had homosexual affairs, half of the Bloomsbury group and Cambridge University. In short, large numbers of English literature's most eminent figures were homosexual, bisexual or at least laid back enough not to worry and have to give it a lable. Would that we were all a little more tolerant these days.

[nbatterby]

Right queer? Is ths important?

[zQWASZX]

if you were forced to fight with men all day every day, see nothing but men, be forced to care for, look after and mourn only men, for months and months on end, i think you might be a bit fuking queer too. Either way, he's a fantastic poet, and it didn't effect his poetry so who gives a damn?

[foldedintobeauty2]

now that was awesome

[cr0wdedh0using]

Samuel Barnett sounds great! He's not that bad looking with a mustache too..

[stewbacca117]

sounds like Jude Law doing the second part of the reading...very good poem

[ImNotOk123]

thank you!