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War Poetry - 'Dulce et Decorum est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
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War Poetry Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire on 18th March 1983. He was the son of a railway worker and was educated at schools in Shrewsbury and Liverpool. Owen was encouraged to write poetry from an early age by his devoted mother. He couldn't afford university education, so decided to go abroad to teach English in France. Owen volunteered for the Army in 1914 when the First World War broke out. After training he became an officer and was sent to France at the end of 1916, seeing service first in the Somme sector. The following year, Owen took part in the attacks on the German Hindenburg Line near St Quentin. When a huge shell burst near him, he was shell-shocked and sent back to England. The horrors of battle quickly transformed Owen and the way he thought about life. He was treated in Craig Lockhart hospital in Edinburgh. Doctors...
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