Dulce et Decorum Est

In August 1914, everyone believed the war in Europe would last four months, few dared to think it would last four years. I have always loved Great War Poet, Wilfred Owen's poetry and "Dulce et Decorum Est" is my favorite. So, I set the poem to some of the best WWI films: All Quiet on the Western Front (w/ Richard Thomas as Paul Baumer), Joyeux Noel, Gallipoli, and The Lost Battalion. I think Owen would approve of his poem's usage as I tried my best to get across what he wrote about the Great War and the Lie: "Dulce et decorum est, pro patria mori." It is sweet to meet and die for one's country. On the contrary, I think those men begged to differ. Enjoy! I claim no ownership to any of the aforementioned films, or the song, "Requiem for a Dream." Sorry about the way the words turned out!

"Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori."

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[xxXMERKERJOSHXxx]

whats that music called PLEASE

[PhantomHobbit]

@xxXMERKERJOSHXxx

"Requiem for a Dream"

[Giprius]

cool, somethig about the first war. wat's the movie?

[PhantomHobbit]

Thanks! It's Gallipoli, Joyeux Noel, Richard Thomas's All Quiet on the Western Front, and The Lost Battalion.

[FenderGuitarGurl]

i like the music playing with it..what's it called? does anyone know?

[PhantomHobbit]

Jawohl! It's "Requiem for a Dream." It was written for The Two Towers trailer, but never used in the movie.

[Tomy0791]

for 100 years the big empires improved their weapons and invented weapons like machine guns, gas and planes and then they attack each other like in the stone age.

Thats why millions died. It's stupid to attack against a new weapon with an old tactic.

[ghost7594]

what are all the movies shown here ?

[tiewebb]

great upload,takes me back to school days,when i studied this poem for my english dissertation,thanx

[TheIndio214]

soldiers dont die for their country they die for their brothers at arms

[Compiton1986]

And the Canadians, the Australians, New Zealanders', there was more then just British, Americans and Russians. And as technikak said, it has nothing to do with Hitler, Hitler was in fact in the trenches fighting as a Corporal