Question

Jon Stallworthy collected fragments of poems from this conflict with an unfinished preface that begins, “this book is not about heroes.” The narrator says to “move him into the sun” in a poem set during this conflict that asks, “was it for this the clay grew tall?” Poems reflecting on this conflict were published in the magazine The Hydra, whose contributors convalesced at Craiglockhart (15[1])Hospital. A “certain poetess” (15[1])identified as (*) Jessie Pope was the dedicatee of a poem about this conflict whose narrator, “dim through misty panes and thick green light,” sees a man “guttering, (10[1])choking, drowning.” (10[1])That poem describes soldiers (10[1])in this conflict “bent double, like old (10[1])beggars under sacks” and ends by reciting the title “old lie.” For 10 points, name this conflict, the setting of “Dulce et Decorum est” by Wilfred Owen. ■END■

ANSWER: World War I [or the First World War; or the Great War]
<HG, British Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Richard LinAmherstYale6315
Michael KearneyHarvardBowdoin B6715
Dylan TanouyeTufts BBU9410
Gabriel MargoliesBoston College BTufts A9610
Richard LimBowdoin CClark House10010
Graham LucasBowdoin AClark Wilson10710

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