Essays on Latin Phrase

Summary

The Epigraph to Poe's “Berenice” by Michael Beard addresses an issue of a Latin epigraph “Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicae visitarem, curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas,” originally written by an Arab. Alterton and Craig have best translated the following quotation as: “My companion said to me, if I would visit the grave of my friend, I might somewhat alleviate my worries” (Beard 611). Michael Beard assumes that this Latin phrase is not rooted in Arabic literature, however, such a trope is frequently seen in Arabic poetry as an evocative opening line, or a preface. If we look at an Arab ...

Wilfred Owen was one of the most prominent anti-war poets of the early 20th century; unlike many of his peers, he dared to depict war as unfeeling, unsympathetic and gritty. In his poems, especially “Dulce Et Decorum Est”, war is shown to be horrible and shocking – a far cry from the romanticism and patriotism of his countrymen. From a sociological critical lens, Owen’s poetry was the start of a backlash against the perceived glory of war (World War I in particular) from someone who understood its grim reality – these poems demonstrate the foolishness of patriotism and nationalism in the face of ...

The aim of this essay is to present you with a portrait and analysis of the poem ‘Dulce et Decorum est’. This is a poem titled in a Latin phrase which goes on in the first verse saying ‘Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori’. This Latin phrase borrowed by Horace, the Latin poet, means that it is sweet and ideal for one to die for his / her country. The poem was written by Wilfred Owen in 1917. The year this poem was written there was a war going on and this was the World War I. According to sources ‘the earliest ...

The First World War was the most devastating loss of life in human history up to that point, with nearly 10 million killed in action and millions more wounded or missing. The new technologies and war tactics used in the conflict, with combat aircraft, deadly gases and trench warfare, made this particular war especially devastating. In Wilfred Owen's 1917 poem Dulce et Decorum est, he describes the horrors of war, especially the specific terror that occurs during a gas attack in World War I. The poem itself is a treatise on just how atrocious war is, and the inherent disgust that ...