Wilfred Owen and Brecht
Wilfred Owen is indisputably one of the best war poets of 20th century. For him war was nothing but a futile exercise that produces mass death and destruction. It is amazing what the poet managed to achieve in his short life of 25 years before getting killed during the First World War. Despite his youth, Owen displayed eat maturity in his work and his work reflects his anger, frustration, hatred and intense disappointment at the futility of war. In his poem 'Strange Meeting', he encapsulated his views on war and his generation's experience of the same in one single line: 'The pity of war, the pity war distilled'. This line was followed by his prophetic views on war and its effects on people:
Now men will go content with what we spoiled.
Or discontent, boil bloody and be spilled.
They will be swift with swiftness of the tigress,
None will break ranks, though nations trek from progress.
Owen made a significant and immensely important statement about war specifically the First World War. This was a period characterized by external conflicts and internal hopelessness. War had only added to the misery of people. Owen understood this clearly since he couldn't comprehend how war could ever solve the problems that nations encountered. His deep and almost seething sense of pity and futility of war had awakened him to the internal war that each soldier faced when fighting on the battlefield. He believed that soldiers do not approve of killings, they cannot possibly see people dying yet they are forced to commit these crimes in the name of loyalty and patriotism.
He spoke of a generation that was untrained in the art of killing and was simply unskilled in war yet they were required to commit some seriously...
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personal perspectives create distinctive views challenges life" Wilfred Owen subject studied, His poems "Mental Cases" "Dulce Decorum est" assigned poems essay written. A speech 5 minutes duration. Speech: The poetry of Wilfred Owen Wilfred Owen is considered one of the greatest of the British 'war poets,' a group of writers who became esteemed for their often cynical views of World War I. Owen's life history as a writer is particularly extraordinary
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