Wilfred Owen War Poems Quotes

The Heroic Myth (Dulce Et Decorum Est)

"like old beggars under sacks...coughing like hags"

"My friend, you would not tell with such high zest"

"That old lie. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."

The Heroic Myth (Disabled)

"He thought he better join. He wonders why."

"He thought of jeweled hilts, smart salutes"

The Heroic Myth (S.I.W)

"Father would sooner him dead than in disgrace,"

"'Death sooner than dishonour, that's the style!'

Pity of war (Dulce Et Decorum Est)

"distant rest"

"A under a green sea I saw him drowning"

"guttering, choking, drowning".

Pity of war (Anthem for Doomed Youth)

"these who die like cattle"

"monstrous anger of the guns"

"and each slow dusk a drawing of blinds"

Pity of war (Disabled)

"He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark."

"He's lost his colour

Pity of war (Mental Cases)

"drooping tongues from jaws that slob their relish"

"pawing at us who dealt them war and madness."

murders, multitudinous murders they once witnessed"

"Dawn breaks open like a wound that bleeds afresh"

Pity of war (S.I.W)

"bullet misses it's aim"

"Tim died smiling"

Loss of Innocence (Dulce Et Decorum Est)

"In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, he plunges at me"

"To children ardent for some desperate glory"

Loss of Innocence (Anthem for doomed youth)

"their eyes shall shine the holly glimmers of goodbyes"

Loss of Innocence (Disabled)

"When glow lamps budded in the light blue trees"

"For [his face] was younger than his youth, last year"

Loss of Innocence (Mental Cases)

"treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter"

Loss of Innocence (S.I.W)

"This time, Death had not missed."