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GCSE English Coursework - Wilfred Owen By R.E. Warden Wilfred Owen served as an officer in the first world war. He spent several months in Craig Lockhart War Hospital during the war suffering from neurasthenia, or shell shock, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, another war poet, and wrote some of his best poetry. He saw his fellow soldiers struggle, fight and die in the mud and misery of the trenches and was enraged with the senseless killing on the battlefield. He felt that it was a terrible waste of life. As a tragic example of the "doomed youth" of his own poems, he was killed by German machine-gun fire at the age of only 25, just 7 days before the Armistice. The bells were ringing in Shrewsbury to celebrate the Armistice when the doorbell rang at his parents' home, bringing them the telegram with the news of their son's death. Wilfred Owen...

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