In one poem by this author, the speaker meets an "encumbered sleeper" in some "profound dull tunnel" who claims "I am the enemy you killed my friend." An "ecstasy of fumbling" occurs in one of this author's poems before the speaker hears "at every jolt, the blood / come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs." This author of "Strange Meeting" described men "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks," one of whom dies "guttering, choking, drowning," during a gas attack. That poem by this author ends by calling the title phrase "the old lie." For 10 points, name this World War 1 poet of "Dulce et Decorum Est."
a) Siegfried Sassoon
b) T.S. Eliot
c) Wilfred Owen
d) Rupert Brooke

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