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  2. Wilfred Owen - Wikipedia

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    Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War.His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war ...

  3. List of poems by Wilfred Owen - Wikipedia

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    Wilfred Owen. This is a list of poems by Wilfred Owen. "1914" "A New Heaven" "A Terre" [1] [2] [3] "Anthem for Doomed Youth" "The Bending over of Clancy Year 12 on October 19th" "Arms and the Boy" "As Bronze may be much Beautified" "Asleep" "At a Calvary near the Ancre" "Beauty" "But I was Looking at the Permanent Stars" "Conscious" "Cramped in ...

  4. Poems (Wilfred Owen) - Wikipedia

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    Owen's reputation as a war poet was quickly established immediately after the end of the war. A further 19 poems were added in an expanded second edition, The Poems of Wilfred Owen published by Edmund Blunden in 1931, and the total reached 80 (together with other fragments) in the collected poems published by Cecil Day Lewis in 1963.

  5. Dulce et Decorum est - Wikipedia

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    "Dulce et Decorum Est" is a poem written by Wilfred Owen during World War I, and published posthumously in 1920. Its Latin title is from a verse written by the Roman poet Horace: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori. [3] In English, this means "it is sweet and right to die for one's country". [4]

  6. Enclosed rhyme - Wikipedia

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    "Exposure", by Wilfred Owen, [2] also has an example of enclosed rhyme. Each of the eight stanzas have the ABBA half rhyming sequence: Each of the eight stanzas have the ABBA half rhyming sequence: Our brains ache in the merciless iced east winds that knive us ...

  7. A New Heaven - Wikipedia

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    "A New Heaven" is a sonnet by Wilfred Owen, written in England before Owen had seen active service in the trenches of France, probably in September 1916. Some MS drafts bear differing dedications (To — on active service or To a comrade in Flanders). The poem was probably written in Milford Camp, Surrey, which was a part of Witley Camp.

  8. Category:Poetry by Wilfred Owen - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Poetry by Wilfred Owen" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *

  9. The Parable of the Old Man and the Young - Wikipedia

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    "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" is a poem by Wilfred Owen that compares the ascent of Abraham to Mount Moriah and his near-sacrifice of Isaac there with the start of World War I. It had first been published by Siegfried Sassoon in 1920 with the title "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young", without the last line: "And half the ...