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"The First World War marked an important turning point in literary history: in the poem of Wilfred Owen, war is described for the first time in all its horror." Do you agree with this judgement?
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"The First World War marked an important turning point in literary history: in the poem of Wilfred Owen, war is described for the first time in all its horror." Do you agree with this judgement? The bells were ringing on November 11, 1918 in Shrewsbury to celebrate the Armistice when the doorbell rang at Wilfred Owen's parents' home, bringing them the telegram telling them their son was dead. It is this tragic circumstance that lends an especially ironic, bitter edge to the man's work. Wilfred Owen enlisted and served as an officer in the British army during World War I, but he was injured in March 1917 and sent home; he was fit for duty again in August, 1918, and returned to the front. On November 4, just seven days before the Armistice, he was caught in a German machine gun attack and killed. He was twenty-five when he...
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