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English Coursework Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire on 8th March 1893. He was encouraged to write poetry from an early age by his mother. Owen volunteered for the army in 1914 when the First World War started. After training he became an officer in Manchester Regiment in 1916. Owen flew back to Britain after a huge gas bomb exploded near him leaving him shell-shocked. With his mum's encouragement, Owen wrote about the pitiful reality of trench welfare and the awful suffering of individual soldiers that had such a profound effect on him. A number of Owens poems where published during his life time, but he was greatly recognised as one of the most effective and moving witnesses of world war one. Owen died aged 25, one week before Armistice in 1918. Title: From your reading of Dulce et decorum est and the sentry, what do you think Wilfred Owen's attitude...

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