What happens to the dedication?
What changes in the first line?
Which word is changed here & again before the final version?
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What happens to the dedication?
What changes in the first line?
Which word is changed here & again before the final version?
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How is "tortured for your own sin" made less personal in the final version? Think about who the "you" is in this version of the poem.
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| (D) Repository: Oxford English Faculty Library. |
| Date: 8 October 1917 |
| Place: Craiglockhart, Scotland |
| Early drafts of "Dulce et Decorum Est" are dedicated to Jessie Pope, an author of children's books and conventional patriotic verse. |