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Date Submitted: 06/03/2008 03:31 AM
Why can’t we all live in peace, why must the world suffer for the actions of men and their politics? Good morning everyone today is a time to recognise the great poets of the war. War has taken the lives of countless fighting in the name of peace. Today violence, wars and racial battles are still plaguing the world killing, and destroying people’s lives.
Some people were born to be poets, others were made. World War 1 (1914-1918) was a turning point in mankind’s history. It was a war that claimed many lives but also a war that created many poets. Poetry was a way for men and woman to share their ideas and reflects of the monstrosities they have witnessed. It was also a way for people to make political statements who other wise would have been silenced.through the propaganda and censorship of the governments of the time.
Wilfred Owen was a poet forged by the circumstances of world war, born on the 18th of March 1893 in the United Kingdom. During October 1915 Owen enlisted in the Artists Riffles; he spent 14 month training and a short 4 months in the war fighting on the front line. He had based all his war poetry on this time retelling the shocks and events of the war he had witnessed. During August of 1918 Owen returned to England after his friend another Great War poet, Siegfried Sassoon, was injured. Having met at a hospital this meeting was regarded as the start of Owens poetry career. The severity of the war ended in 1918 just seven days before Owen was killed in one of the final battles of the war.
Owen was completely anti-war using his poetry to condemn the destructive power of war. He was shocked by how people at home were uninformed about the severity of the war, and how people where kept silent. Owen strongly disagreed with the politics of the war. He used his poems to tell the truth awakening people’s consciousness. He used strong Imagery to portray the severity of the war.