Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches
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Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke.
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Poems by Wilfred Owen - In the Trenches - Wilfred Owen
POEMS BY
WILFRED OWEN
IN THE TRENCHES
By
WILFRED OWEN
First published in 1920
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Contents
World War One in Literature
PREFACE
STRANGE MEETING
GREATER LOVE
APOLOGIA PRO POEMATE MEO
THE SHOW
MENTAL CASES
PARABLE OF THE OLD MEN AND THE YOUNG
ARMS AND THE BOY
ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH
THE SEND-OFF
INSENSIBILITY
DULCE ET DECORUM EST
THE SENTRY
THE DEAD-BEAT
EXPOSURE
SPRING OFFENSIVE
THE CHANCES
S. I. W.
FUTILITY
SMILE, SMILE, SMILE
CONSCIOUS
A TERRE
(Being the Philosophy of many Soldiers.)
WILD WITH ALL REGRETS
(Another version of A Terre.)
DISABLED
THE END
The only poets who spoke to the purpose spoke in the sidelong, satiric manner of Wilfrid Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. It was not possible for them to be direct without being clumsy; or to speak simply of emotion without being sentimental.
Virginia Woolfe,
The Common Reader, 1925
World War One
in Literature
In 1939, the writer Robert Graves was asked to write an article for the BBC's Listener magazine, explaining 'as a war poet of the last war, why so little poetry has so far been produced by this one.' From the very first weeks of fighting the First World War inspired enormous amounts of poetry, factual analysis, autobiography and fiction - from all countries involved in the conflict. 2,225 English war poets have been counted, of whom 1808 were civilians. The 'total' nature of this war perhaps goes someway to explaining its enormous impact on the popular imagination. Even today, commemorations and the effects of a 'lost generation' are still being witnessed, it was a war fought for traditional, nationalistic values of the nineteenth century, propagated using twentieth