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26This poet wrote The Waste Land.RECALL
T. S. Eliot
Eliot's fragmented Waste Land captured postwar disillusionment and stands among the century's most influential poems.
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27This poet wrote The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.RECALL
T. S. Eliot
Eliot's Prufrock voices a man paralyzed by hesitation and opens with an epigraph borrowed from Dante's Inferno.
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28Wilfred Owen depicts a First World War gas attack and condemns a patriotic Latin saying in this poem.RECALL
Dulce et Decorum Est
Owen's Dulce et Decorum Est portrays the horror of a World War I gas attack in unflinching detail.
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