Owen's Dulce (screen = black)

reading Wilfred Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est. I was too lazy to set up my video camera, but the black screen seemed appropriate anyhow. If someone else wants to add a photo montage, be my guest.

Obligatory footnote: "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori" = "It is sweet and fitting to die for ones country"

I don't know how Owen would have pronounced "Dulce," but I was taught to pronounce the C in Classical Latin as a hard C rather than as in Modern Italian. As I look at other videos, I'm hearing a lot of people pronounce it as in Modern Italian, but the more I think about it, the more strongly I prefer the hard C. It sounds better: it's more weighty. No matter how ardent the children are for some desperate glory, they're not going to believe you if you tell them that dying for ones country is "dul-chay," as if it were aranciata or tiramisu. "Dul-kay" is a lie; "dul-chay" is a joke.

Damn, what category does this belong in? I sure wouldn't call it "Entertainment." I'll put it under "News and Politics," but please understand that I do not intend this to endorse any particular political position, except perhaps what is implicit in the poem itself.

Category:

News & Politics

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• dulce
• et
• decorum
• est
• poem
• reading
• poetry
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• WWI

[InsaneChick24]

yea thats ment to say i cant stop watching this hehe it came off wrong as i was typing ^^

[InsaneChick24]

i love this poem :) been studying it in english ican stop playing this :D