War Poet

Veterans Day brings to mind the work of poets on the war they have experienced, among them Wifred Owen, killed in action on November 4, 1918, fighting for England, a  week before the World War I armistice.  In his poem Dulce et Decorum Est (a Latin quotation from the Roman poet  Horace: "It is sweet and becoming to die for one's country"), he describes the horrors suffered in modern warfare,  concluding that the saying is an " old lie."  In his famous poem, Owen emphasizes the tragedy, not the glory of war.