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As under a green sea, I saw him drowning. He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning. " Dulce et Decorum est " is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. Its Latin title is from a verse written by the Roman poet Horace: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. [ 3]
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori[ a] is a line from the Odes (III.2.13) by the Roman lyric poet Horace. The line translates: "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country." The Latin word patria (homeland), literally meaning the country of one's fathers (in Latin, patres) or ancestors, is the source of the French word for a country ...
A Poison Tree. Hand-painted copy B of William Blake's "A Poison Tree", 1794 currently held at the British Museum. " A Poison Tree " is a poem written by William Blake, published in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection. It describes the narrator's repressed feelings of anger towards an individual, emotions which eventually lead to ...
Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn. " The World Is Too Much with Us " is a sonnet by the English Romantic poet William Wordsworth. In it, Wordsworth criticises the world of the First Industrial Revolution for being absorbed in materialism and distancing itself from nature. Composed circa 1802, the poem was first published in Poems, in ...
He forbead þa heortas) " The Rime of King William " is an Old English poem that tells the death of William the Conqueror. The Rime was a part of the only entry for the year of 1087 (though improperly dated 1086) in the " Peterborough Chronicle /Laud Manuscript." In this entry there is a thorough history and account of the life of King William.
Edwin Brock. Edwin Brock (19 October 1927 – 7 September 1997) was a British poet. Brock published ten volumes of poetry from 1959 through his death in 1997. Two of Brock's poems In particular -- Five Ways to Kill a Man (1972) and Song of the Battery Hen (1977) -- have been heavily anthologized.
Martin Scorsese's Killers of the Flower Moon recounts the real Osage murders committed by William Hale (Robert DeNiro). Here's the true story of the grisly crime.
A Rose for Emily. " A Rose for Emily " is a short story by American author William Faulkner, first published on April 30, 1930, in an issue of The Forum. The story takes place in Faulkner's fictional Jefferson, Mississippi, in the equally fictional county of Yoknapatawpha. It was Faulkner's first short story published in a national magazine.