“My subject is war” wrote Wilfred Owen.,” and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity.” Owen is different from his contemporaries, Julian Grenfell and Rupert Brooke in that he does not glorify war but treats it rather as a tragic and devastating experience, and treats the victims with compassion. Edmund Blunden labels ...
Wilfred Owen’s poem “Disabled” is about a soldier who came home from WWI missing limbs, and how this disability changed his life. This poem was written when Owen was in Craiglockhart War Hospital being treated for shell shock. It is very likely that he saw numerous soldiers like the one he describes in this poem ...
Wilfred Owen’s Dulce Et Decorum Est has been called the best known poem of the first world war, and for good reason. The meaning of the poem presents itself clearly through gradually increasing intensity and violence with grisly diction, graphic imagery, and an ironic and often purposefully contradictory tone. The diction Owen uses portrays the ...
Insensibility is said to have been written as a response to William Wordsworth who once claimed that “Who is the happy warrior/ Who is he/ That every man in arms should wish to be” (Character of the Happy Warrior). The poem appears to be a sarcastic retort to the Romantic poet since most of the ...
Wilfred Owen’s Miners is about the colliery disaster at Halmend in January 12, 1918. The Minnie Pit was named after Minnie Craig, the daughter of one of the owners. The pit was 359 yards deep, and was extremely profitable before the disaster. On the day of the disaster there were 248 men working in the ...
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