Wilfred Owen
A community portal about Wilfred Owen with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC was an English poet and soldier, regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking... [more]
A community portal about Wilfred Owen with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC was an English poet and soldier, regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works - most of which remained unpublished until after his death - include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, and Strange Meeting. His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially'War, and the pity of War', and'the Poetry is in the pity'.
Dulce et Decorum Est
Today is the anniversary of the death of one of World War One's most famous poets. As we approach Armistice Day-there is a theme of Soldiers and writing...Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on March 18, 1893. He was on the Continent teaching until he visited a hospital for the wounded and then decided, in September, 1915, to return to England and enlist. "I came out in order to help these boys-- directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can. I have done the first" (October, 1918).
Owen was injured in March 1917 and sent home; he was fit for duty in August, 1918, and returned to the front. November 4, just seven days before the Armistice, he was caught in a German machine gun attack and killed. He was twenty-five when he died.
The bells were ringing on November 11, 1918, in Shrewsbury to celebrate the Armistice when the doorbell rang at his parent's home, bringing them the telegram telling them their son was dead.
This is his most famous work. It describes the horror of war and especially the added horror of chemical weapons that were so prevalent in World War One. Although it is depressing-it is what we should do on Vetereans Day-reflect on the sacrifices of veterans and their families and the realities of war. It is the reason real veterans have no desire to rush to war.
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
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