Whats your opinion of war poet Wilfred Owens poems?
“My subject is war, and the pity of war, the pity is in the poetry” wrote Owen, and it is, I think, his feeling of pity that makes him so well loved today.I Just read the introduction th the Penguin book of First World War poets, where the editor spends a great deal of time criticising Owen, but his bitterness against the stupidity and horror of war in “Dulce et Decorum est” and “Anthem for Doomed youth” make him in my mind even greater than Sassoon (Who helped him with ‘Anthem’, and whom Owen adored).
