Wilfred Owen: Poems Wilfred Owen

Anthem for Doomed Youth is a poem written by Wilfred Owen. Anthem is written as a piece of mourning about the soldiers lost in WWI, this being especially ironic as Wilfred Owen himself died in World War I, two weeks before the Armistice. Anthem...

Jessie Pope and Wilfred Owen have both written poems about war, but each poet describes war from a different perspective. While Pope portrays war as a game in her poem, Owen illustrates the harsh realities of war by the use of diction and other...

It is often argued that Owen's biggest typicality within his poetry is not a disdain for war and conflict, but a 'pity' for the soldiers that endure it. This strong sentiment of a united struggle that transcends class, status, and even beyond...

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen, published posthumously in 1920, is a ferocious denunciation of the war propagandists who with blind patriotism, glorify warfare. Owen intended to explicitly respond to Jesse Pope’s enthusiastic war poems....