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This poem, Inspection, was written by Wilfred Owen in 1918 the year before he died when he was in the First World War. The poem isa 3-stanza poem, about an inspection by a commanding officer, almostcertainly, Owen himself, and the reactions of an ord...
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This poem, Inspection, was written by Wilfred Owen in 1918 the year before he died when he was in the First World War. The poem is a 3-stanza poem, about an inspection by a commanding officer, almost certainly, Owen himself, and the reactions of an ordinary soldier. Inspections were very important to the British army, reinforcing the need for certain standards and discipline. I think that Owen is pointing out that inspections are unnecessary, and that this particular inspection was unfair upon the individual soldier. Owen was educated in London; after an illness in 1913 he lived in France. He had already begun to write, while working as a tutor near Bordeaux. In 1915 Owen enlisted in the British army. The experience of trench warfare brought changed him a lot. The poems written after January 1917 are full of anger at war's brutality, an elegiac pity for "those who die as...
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