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Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, born 1893, was a British poet during the First World War, He wrote poetry from an early age and was inspired by religion. In 1913 he went to France to teach English and on returning he decided to enlist in the army to fight in the World War. He entered the war in 1917 and fought in the battle of the Somme but was hospitalized for shell shock and met Siegfreid Sassoon (a poet) and his works were in harmony with Owen's concerns. In the poem 'Dulce et Decorum est' the soldiers are marching hopelessly and desperately back to their 'distant rest'. The men are positioned amongst the bombardment of German flares and shells dropping as they suffer a gas attack. Owen describes the men's panicking as one of the men fails to put on his gas mask in time. Owen uses this incident to...

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