Wilfred+Owen

Wilfred Owen (Close Study of Text)
Wilfred Owen is one of the most famous poets of World War One. Although he was a brave soldier (he was awarded the Military Cross for his heroism in the field), he was also appalled by the conditions that men on the Western Front endured. His poetry dwells on the indignity visited on those who fought in the war, from the seemingly random and horrible deaths that lurked around every corner on the front to the debilitating mental and physical injuries that men continued to endure for years after the war had ended. Owen himself would not live to see the end of the war, killed a week before the signing of the armistice.