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Wilfred Owen : Futility Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, one of the many Great War poets during World War I, was born on March 18 at Osweshy, Shropshire, on the Welsh border. Son of Tom and Susan Owen, who were Welsh ancestry, Wilfred was the eldest of four sons. His education began at the Birkenhead Institute, and then continued at the Technical School in Shrewsbury when the family was forced to move there in 1906 after his father was appointed Assistant Superintendent for the Western Region of the railways. Given his low-middle-class upbringing, at a young age Wilfred showed neither love, nor the ability to write poetry. He found little interest in cotemporary poems and other sorts of literature. After failing to be admitted to the University of London, Wilfred decided to become a clergyman. In 1911, he moved to Dunsden and was taught by the local Vicar, for unpaid work in...

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