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War Poetry Assignment This assignment aims to provide insight to casualties of war at the turn of the century from two very different perspectives. Wilfred Owen writes of the Boar War and the utter "hopelessness the soldiers" face whilst Hardy writes in a romantic, idealised way, with notions that "strange eyed constellations" will preserve "His starts eternally". It must be also noted that Hardy writes not of own personal experience but of a true story, details of which he extracted from a local paper at the time. Conversely, Owen writes using his first hand experience drawn from his time serving in World War 1. "Newly arrived in France in January 1917, Second Lieutenant Wilfred Owen wrote home to his mother, explaining how the real thing - mud - was making itself manifest, inundating his sleeping bag and his pyjamas: welcome to the Western Front".1 Wilfred Owen was regarded as one of the most...

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