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Compare how Wilfred Owen uses the natural world to reinforce the suffering that the soldiers faced in the poems 'Spring Offensive' and 'Exposure'
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Compare how Owen uses the natural world to reinforce the suffering that the soldiers faced in the poems 'spring offensive' and 'exposure'. Wilfred Owen was an experienced soldier who fought in World War One. He wrote poems based on his experiences in the war. Many of his poems focus on the ordeals of the soldiers and the problems they face. In the poems 'Spring Offensive' and 'Exposure' Owen shows the love/ hate relationship between soldiers and nature. I think that Owens personal experiences of both battles of war and nature were the inspiration for these two poems. Wilfred Owen once said 'My subject is war and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity'. These poems certainly show the pity of soldiers and of war. The poem 'Exposure' tells of men fighting two enemies. The enemy in battle but also an unexpected enemy that caused far more pain and suffering...
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