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The themes, techniques and reader response to the First World War poetry of Wilfred Owen
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The themes, techniques and reader response to the First World War poetry of Wilfred Owen The First World War poetry of Wilfred Owen provides an exhaustive and poignant account of the atrocities he witnessed between the Allies and the Germans from 1914 to 1918. Although the style and structure of his poems vary considerably throughout his body of work, the two elements of physical and psychological torment suffered by the soldiers in the war. He is quoted here describing his work: 'Above all, I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity.' The physical destruction the Great War had on the soldiers is often described in minute, intricate detail. Owen's most famous poem 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' paints a stomach-churning image of a victim of a gas attack, describing his 'white eyes writhing in his face, his hanging face, like...
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