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Twentieth Century Poetry.
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Twentieth Century Poetry W.B. Yeats described Owen's poetry as "all blood and dirt and sucked sugar stick." With reference to at least two of Owen's poems, discuss the validity of Yeat's judgement. He was born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire as the oldest child in his family. In 1911 he left school and he had a passion for poetry and poets. When he left Dunsden early in 1913 he had lost his Christian faith. He went to Bordeaux and found himself busy, independent and happy before the war broke out in 1914. It was not until October 1915 that he was enlisted as a cadet with the Artists Rifles in London, and later in the Manchester Regiment. After a long experience of trench warfare he was sent to Edinburgh for convalescence in a local military hospital. It was here that he met Seigfried Sassoon who had an important influence on the young poet,...
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