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Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 and was educated at Birkenhead Institute, Liverpool and London University.
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Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 and was educated at Birkenhead Institute, Liverpool and London University. In 1915 he joined the artists rifles and later the Manchester regiment. He fought in the trenches in France and became a commissioned officer. He fell ill after a long period of trench warfare and was sent to a military hospital near Edinburgh. Wilfred Owen died in 1918 one week before the Armistice. Before the First World War many people considered dying for your country was the most patriotic act you could perform and war was noble. Wilfred Owen wrote a poem called Dulce et Decorum Est. This poem dates from Owens period at the war hospital in Criraiglockhart, Edinburgh. It is one of the best known of Owen's poems, perhaps because of its bitter, angry violence. Owen was anxious to describe the war as it really was -he saw no point in telling...
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