The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, … - Wilfred Owen

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Wilfred Owen

The Young Soldier It is not death Without hereafter To one in dearth Of life and its laughter, Nor the sweet murder Dealt slow and even Unto the martyr Smiling at heaven: It is the smile Faint as a (waning) myth, Faint, and exceeding small On a boy's murdered mouth.

Dealt, Heaven, Laughter, Life, Smiling, Sweet

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I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are to this generation in no sense conciliatory. They may be to the next. All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the true Poets must be truthful.

Conciliatory, Elegies, Generations, Poet, This Generation, War

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

Ambition, Defined, Funny, Number, Numbers

The old Lie:Dulce et decorum est Pro patria mori.

Est, Latin, Lying, Mori, Pro, War

Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

Concerned, Pity, Poetry, Poetry Is, War

Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

Dead, Lips, Red, Stones