What is the basis for critiquing patriotism in the poem

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Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) wrote clear, vivid, starkly descriptive scenes of the front lines of World War I (1914-18). Like many soldiers he entered the war with patriotic zeal only to have his view of the war challenged by its protracted and violent realities. He writes of the particular horrors of a poison gas attack in "Dulce et Decorum Est." How do the Latin words of lines 27-28 translate? Why does the narrator call these words "the old lie"? What is the basis for critiquing patriotism in the poem? What imagery does Owen use to establish his critique of patriotic fervor?

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