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Question 18:Which of Owen's poems mainly deals with gas warfare?

  • Dulce et Decorum est

  • Anthem for Doomed Youth

  • Strange Meeting

  • Insensibility

Answer

Dulce et Decorum est is one of Owen's most well-known poems, and it deals with the horrors of gas warfare. The poem describes in graphic detail the death of a soldier who is overcome by gas, and it ends with the speaker asking how it can be "sweet and fitting" for men to die in this way.
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