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.* wilfred owen, dulce et decorum est, 1917 * dulce et decorum est/ pro patria mori: "it is sweet and fitting to die for your country." which statement best describes this excerpt from the wilfred owen poem? a) war is a glorious experience. b) war is a horrible and futile event. c) war is a tragic event but is sometimes unavoidable. d) war is something that is best left for soldiers, not poets.