Wilfred Owen/Quotes

 

 

Wilfred Owen/Quotes

 

My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

 

All a poet can do today is warn.

 

Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.

 

Ambition may be defined as the willingness to receive any number of hits on the nose.

 

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. Wikipedia 

      

Wilfred Owen
Born	18 March 1893 Oswestry, Shropshire, England
Died	4 November 1918 (aged 25) Sambre–Oise Canal, France
Nationality	British
Period	World War I
Genre	War poetry

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War.

His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his 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 were published posthumously – are "Dulce et Decorum est", "Insensibility", "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Futility", "Exposure" and "Strange Meeting".

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