Search results
If a devil is "sick of sin," the implication is that the level of sin must be truly deplorable. A devil is supposed to enjoy sin, and to cultivate it in other people.
Dulce et Decorum Est. By Wilfred Owen. Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs, And towards our distant rest began to trudge. Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots, But limped on, blood-shod.
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 ...
A Short Analysis of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’. By Dr Oliver Tearle. ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ or, to give the phrase in full: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, Latin for ‘it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country’ ( patria is where we get our word ‘patriotic’ from).
Enunciado: The devil was sick, the devil a saint would be; the devil was well, the devil a saint was he. Traducción literal: El diablo estaba enfermo, fue un santo; el diablo estaba bien, fue el mal de un santo.
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...
It vividly illustrates the gruesome demise of a soldier during an attack with blood-curdling imagery, such as in the lines - '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.'
