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Wilfred Owen - Poet of World War I

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Uploaded by on Mar 5, 2007

Information on Wilfred Owen and a few of his poems.

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  • Very interesting stuff,straight into my favourites.

    Regards

    Jim Clark

    See hundreds of unique videos of acoustic musicians and poets under my youtube name of vidlad

  • I'm glad you enjoyed it - it's amazing how much work can go into something so short! :) I put this together for a poetry class I took this last term.

    Thanks for letting me know someone else enjoys Owen as well!

    ~Jenny

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  • Owen's mother recieved news of her son's death just as Armistice bells were ringing out in celebration of the end of the war.

    Life is too cruel sometimes.

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  • Not the first war that seems like a complete waste of human life. And not the last.

  • WW1 was a waste and a pointless war. Many leaders have a lot to answer for. Millions of young boys died so what? Leaders could gain more land? Show off how powerful their militarized nations where? I for one wish the USA never got involved in WW1 but stayed out of it.

  • Wilfred Owen was an amazing poet, his poems are brilliant. His poems should be put slap bang right in front of every prime minister, president, king or queen that decide to send their people to war, if they can handle the outcome why don't they go to war themselves.

  • @Jedermann101 HELL NO! GOD DAMMIT!!! WAR!! WAR! WAR! WAR! DEATH DESTRUCTION AND CHAOS.

  • Paz! Paz! Paz! Paz para honrar los muertos! Paz para celebrar la vida!

    Miguel

  • beautiful !

  • great video i never heard of him till this vid now i love his poetry its amazing.

    5/5

  • You should see my version of the poem type inbuzzatron1993 and lick dulce et decorum est...hope you like it

  • We've all seen somebody we love, or somebody once lovely, dead, right? I don't think anybody has ever written more beautifully on that horrid, most basic human feeling than Owen, in "Futility":

    "Oh, what made fatuous sunbeams toil

    to break earth's sleep at all?"

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