They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen. After his terrible experience in the trenches he suffered from what they used to call ‘shell ...

Wilfred Owen, war poet. Wilfred Owen was born in Shropshire in 1893. At school, he liked drama and poetry and started writing his own poems when he was a teenager. He worked as an assistant to a ...

It’s a bitter paradox that even the most virulently antiwar of the famous soldier poets of World War I felt the lure ... Sassoon’s friend Wilfred Owen was drawn “to prove to himself and ...

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Wilfred Owen, World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a ...