What is wilfred owens purpose in his poetry?
wilfred owen wanted to show the true cost of war, there was a lot of pro war propaganda published during the 1st world war that glorified it, wilfred wanted people to understand that it wasn’t all heroic actions but was gruesome and scary for most, he also made political comments about how wrong war was and the long term effects.owen started writing nautralistic poems about the horror of war . he wanted to show people war isn’t that great as posters say and you will die at the end from your enemy.