I read this to read for the Read Harder Challenge - because I'm not a big poetry reader and studying war poetry at school was the most interested I was in poetry ever - I could really believe that the poets really had put all the effort in to put all the meanings and levels of meaning in that the teachers said they had. So I read this to see if this had the same effect on me. And it didn't really. The French war poetry seemed to be in the main more religiously inflected than their English language counterparts and I din't love any of them the way I love some of the British ones. Maybe I need to put more effort and study in to close reading, but at irst read there was nothing that packed the same punch on me as Dulce et Decorum Est.