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Which of Wilfred Owen's poems do you admire and why? Wilfred Owen was one of the "soldier poets" of the First World War who practically revolutionised war poetry and views of warfare. As a poet he had an extraordinary talent for drawing the reader into the poem, hooking their attention with a barrage of painfully precise phrases and disgust-inducing images. You cannot help but be affected by Owen's poetry. His words are intensely provocative; his description of trench warfare permeates your conscience leaving a cloying malaise in your mind. I consider this to be true about many of his poems and is in my opinion what makes his work so admirable. "Dulce et Decorum est" is an attempt by Owen to alter people's preconceptions of war. It was, and still is to an extent, indoctrinated that war is synonymous with heroism, and that "there is no fitter end"(In memoriam SCW, Charles...

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