N A Nutshell
If you 're not familiar with, Wilfred Owen don' t worry Shmoop is, here to help. Though you may not have heard. Of Owen he set, the tone for an entire generation of men and women writing and thinking about the events that just rocked. The world - World War I.
Between 1914 and 1918 over nine, million people died. Entire cities were razed to the, ground. Nations, crumbledOnly to be re-formed amidst political turmoil and enough bad blood to launch another war (World War II to be, precise). A few short decades later. American troops joined the war, in 1918 bringing with them the deadliest weapon yet: influenza.? More people died of flu than war injuries.
Caught in a war that was waged primarily in trenches (big ditches that filled. With mud rats and rainwater),,,Owen began to find it hard to justify all the suffering and death he witnessed. He was perfectly willing to sacrifice his. Life for king, and country but like many, other people he ', d like to make sure that his sacrifice was actually needed.
Increasingly. Convinced that the war seemed to be carrying on beyond the point, of reasonOwen began to write poetry that emphasized the irony of his situation. He was in good company: as it turned out lots of,, Men (including Rupert, Sassoon Brooke Siegfried, McCrae and John, others) were feeling like their lives in the trenches. Were becoming farcical. Owen however managed to,, capture the division between the elevated language of nationalism and. His, realityA world that suddenly seemed full of the blood of his nearest friends. Owen 's experience rang true to a lot of the servicemen. And women who contributed to the war efforts of the time.
Owen 's gripping realism remains important today because well,,, It 's so real. When we read, his poetry we feel as though we' re with him on the field watching as, men suffer in a frantic. Struggle to stay alive.
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