Dulce et Decorum Est (1917)
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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.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.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! — An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring 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.
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.
That ladies and gentlemen is a poem against war by Wilfred Owen MC. It demostrates for me the harshest of harsh realities, War. The ancient practice of Homo Sapiens to kill each other for land.
What has this to do with Breaking Dawn? Well, I assume we all know the infamous ending in it where the villains forgive their adversaries for breaking one of their unbreakable rules. An acceptable causus belli which was turned into a bloody peace conference without so much as a single violent action! In stark naked contrast to real war!
I beg for pardon of the language. I got a bit angry in the end.
In conclusion: There is the claim that Twilight is more real, while I think Twilight, or at least Breaking Dawn is the most unreal read I have ever laid my eyes upon.
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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.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.
Gas! GAS! Quick, boys! — An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring 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.
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.
That ladies and gentlemen is a poem against war by Wilfred Owen MC. It demostrates for me the harshest of harsh realities, War. The ancient practice of Homo Sapiens to kill each other for land.
What has this to do with Breaking Dawn? Well, I assume we all know the infamous ending in it where the villains forgive their adversaries for breaking one of their unbreakable rules. An acceptable causus belli which was turned into a bloody peace conference without so much as a single violent action! In stark naked contrast to real war!
I beg for pardon of the language. I got a bit angry in the end.
In conclusion: There is the claim that Twilight is more real, while I think Twilight, or at least Breaking Dawn is the most unreal read I have ever laid my eyes upon.
