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 ...

Through granites which titanic wars had groined. Yet also there encumbered sleepers groaned, Too fast in thought or death to be bestirred. Then, as I probed them, one sprang up, and stared With ...

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 ...

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 ...