Elizabeth S. MorrisProfessor Owens

English 110218 July 2010

Wilfred Owen

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“My subject is War,

and the pity of War.

The Poetry is in

the pity."

- Wilfred Owen

“The subject made the poet: the poet made poems

which radically changed our attitude towards war”

- C. Day Lewis, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

The Manchester Regiment Source BBC

The Were Bombarded From the Sky's

Source BBC

Gas! GAS! Quick boys!" (9)

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The First War to Use Chemical Warfare

Shell ShockShakingLack of ConcentrationMemory LoseAnxietyDepressionFlashbacksNightmaresGuilt

Reliving Traumatic Event

Lack of ConcentrationMemory ProblemsAnxietyEmotionally NumbReliving Traumatic Event

Upsetting DreamsGuilt

Psychological Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

Craiglockhart War Hospital

‘Shell-shock’ treatmentSiegfried SassoonEmerged as a War Poet

Siegfried SassoonGreat War poet Criticized, praised

and admired Wilfred Owen

Owen “could strike attitudes and strived for effective gestures”

- Sassoon 1920

“Half the seed of Europe, one by one”

Slain by Abrahams knife

Near the banks of the Sambre-Oise canal November 4, 1918

“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”

Lewis, C. Day. Introduction. The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen. London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. Print.

Sassoon, Siegfried. “Some Aspects of War Poetry in England: The Harrowing Battle of Poetry vs. Rhetoric”. Vanity Fair April 1920: 3. 15 July 2010

Owen, Wilfred. “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 3rd ed. New York:Longman, 2010. 417-419. Print.

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