Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MCwas an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend and mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth18 March 1893
poetry subject war
My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
creep drums few poetry village
A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,May creep back, silent, to still village wellsUp half-known roads.
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All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.
fields gently morning move poetry sun touch whispering woke
Move him into the sun Gently its touch awoke him once,At home, whispering of fields unsown.Always it woke him, even in France,Until this morning and this snow.
against arms fingers gives idle poetry squad stiff ten
My arms have mutinied against me brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.
caught instead man poetry pride ram
Behold,A ram caught in a thicket by its horns;Offer the Ram of Pride instead of him.But the old man would not so, but slew his son...
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I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's
truth today poet
All the poet can do today is warn. That is why true Poets must be truthful.
war pity poetry-is
Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
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All a poet can do today is warn.
brows flowers patient shall slow tenderness
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;/ Their flowers the tenderness of patient minds,/ And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds.
Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
good
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
inevitable influence interests isolation mixing opposite persons serious tend whose
The isolation from any whose interests are the same as mine, the constant, inevitable mixing with persons whose influence will tend in the opposite direction-this is a serious drawback.