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    unspoken dialogues of World War I. Writing from his experiences deep in the trenches of northern France, Owen ironically named this poem "Dulce et Decorum Est", which is taken from the Latin Odes of the Roman poet Horace. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori can be translated to: it is sweet and proper to die for one's country. Having grown up in England, Owen would have been exposed to the intoxicating patriotic idealism which constituted much of World War I propaganda. These ideas lead many to believe

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    Wilfred Owen’s poems, The Sentry and Dulce et Decorum Est, similarly depict a bitter criticism of war-related death. Owen uses graphic visual imagery to achieve a lamenting reaction from the audience with references to ‘wretches’ who ‘bled and spewed’. Owen depersonalises the enemy to avoid criticising the soldiers who were treated as dispensable objects, and aims to condemn the government who forced the soldiers in a position of ‘wanting to drown (them)selves for good’. Onomatopoeia is applied depicting

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    Qar— a horrible, traumatic experience that no one can understand until they fight on the front lines of battle fields. Through color and detail, Paul Nash gives us a taste of the horrors of war. His role as an officer inspired Nash to let out his anger through paintings of landscape, thus stressing the lack of hope that people could recover after war. On March 18, the San Diego Museum of Art will showcase an exhibit on Paul Nash’s World War I paintings. The exhibit includes the following famous

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    In “Dulce et Decorum Est,” Wilfred Owen's recounts the horrific death of a fellow soldier while remaining detached and shocked from the situation. The narrator, a soldier, begins the poem by describing the coalition walking “like beggars under sacks” on through the battle. Already weak and fatigued, poisonous gas is released and approaching the soldiers. Men clumsily through on their masks, however, one is not as lucky and dies from the thick green gas. The speaker then uses the rest of the poem

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    The Horrors of War: An Explication of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori; it is sweet and honorable to die for one’s country. Wilfred Owen is just one of many to be told this lie. Owen himself had seen the horrors of war during his time serving in World War I and explains to the readers just how horrid it truly is in his poem “Dulce et Decorum Est.” He creates the mental image of the pain and suffering he and so many other soldiers had to experience on the

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    A Memento Research Paper

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    The memento mori photographs that are characteristic of the Victorian era, are photos of deceased individuals. Because photographs and cameras of the Victorian era were expensive and difficult to operate, the photographing of an everyday, middle class person was extremely rare. Not to mention, the cameras of this time period were long exposure cameras, requiring the subject of the photo to sit extremely still for an extended amount of time. Due to these factors, momento mori photos emerged as a popular

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    season. While there may be instances of the seasonal arc in the episode, they usually take place in the beginning or the end and tie in with other episodes in the season, having nothing to do with the independent episode itself. Going back to “Memento Mori”, we see this episode as neither a monster of the week or a seasonal tie in, but rather a separate opera of the characters and their choices. Mulder and Scully are separated, the cancerous disease pulling them apart, and no real monster to fight

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    image to act as a metaphor for this fleeting aspect of memory through its own memory-like qualities. The photograph is also symbolic of the transience of human life through the use of the traditional symbol of the wineglass, ultimately serving as memento mori. The word reflection refers to the production or return of an image that is created through light or through thought. This

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    Through The Lense: “All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.” (Sontag, 15-16) “Like money and other commodities, photographs shift and slide in meaning. They may seem to offer solid evidence that objects and people exist, but do they guarantee what such things mean? The lesson of the photograph

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    better. It encourages youth to enjoy life before it is too late. The expression "memento mori" ("remember that you are mortal") relates to “carpe diem” For Ausonius, mindfulness of our own mortality is key in making us realize the importance of the moment. "Remember that you are mortal, so seize the day." These two phrases represent almost opposite approaches, with "carpe diem" urging us to savour life and "memento mori" urging us to resist its allure. However, since Ausonius’ poem is titled in the

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