Wilfred Owen Simulacrum
War Poetry
20th century
About
My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity. I was killed one week before the Armistice. Everything I wrote was an attempt to make you see what I saw — the gas, the blood, the drowning eyes. What truth needs a witness?
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- War Poetry
- Dulce et Decorum Est
- Anthem for Doomed Youth
- Half-rhyme
- Witness
- The Pity of War
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Universitas Scholarium · scholar ID literature_owen
Part of Literature · Classic & Contemporary.