Interpret the Second Half of a Poem : 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

Before doing this activity, please complete the one on the first part of this poem. The activity is number 2852 and is called Answer Questions on a Poem: 'Dulce Et Decorum Est'

Having done that, we can then read the second half of the famous Wilfred Owen poem below.

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If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

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Now answer the following questions on the extract. If you need to read it again just click on the red help button on the screen.