Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will ...

In doing so, Wilfred Owen seems to show the futility of religion at this time while also demonstrating the brutality of war. In the second stanza the speaker asks where the candles are “to speed ...

Reading some of the anti-war works by soldier poets such as Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen will give you an idea of how war really looked in contrast to the propaganda. The youth of the men is ...