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Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson
Some of Owen's early poems are a lot more jingoistic.But obviously life in the trenches changed his attitude.
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They are.
Actual experience, not just of war, changes lots of attitudes.
Rudyard Kipling, the most jingoistic writer, had his eyes opened to the full horror of the First World War, after the death of his only son, in 1915.
Dulce et Decorum Est is all the more moving, when read in context, and how like many other poets and writers, Owen came to the conclusion that war isn't glorious at all.