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Which of Wilfred Owens poems do you particularly admire and why?
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Wilfred Owen Poetry Which of Wilfred Owens poems do you particularly admire and why? Personally I do not have a particular interest in war poetry, so when I was faced with this essay question I feared that I wouldn't admire any of Wilfred Owens poetry. I was in fact wrong. My experience of war poetry was somewhat different to that of Owens. I believe this is due to the fact that Owen was writing about the First World War; this was indeed very different to any other war ever fought in the world before. Not only was World War One the first war in which the entire world was involved it was also the first war where the "young brave wives" (The Dead-Beat) saw actual pictures and footage of the war and its "carnage incomparable" (Mental Cases). Where before all people at home knew of war was "the old lie" (Dulce et...
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