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By close Examination of Some of the images, explore Owen's view of the shell shocked soldiers. Wilfred Owen fought throughout the First World War until the last week when he unfortunately died in combat. He must have seen many people in shock from the horrors and destruction of war and that is why he composed a poem about shell shocked soldiers. He said this about his poems: "My subject is War and the pity of war" this poem is another example of this. It is apparent that Owen believed that the men are no longer human and that they are in fact called "these". Since loosing their sanity he no longer thought that the people he saw were anything he could recognise; "Who are these?" He was obviously shocked by what he had observed. He used the word "twilight" to set an atmosphere for the rest of the poem. It shows...

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