The Greatest Poet - World War I

Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was born on 18 March 1893. He was a soldier, second lieutenant in the Manchester Regimen. He served for England during World War I. He had seen lots of gruesome bloodshed during the war. Sadly, these experiences he had caused him to suffer from neurasthenia. He was traumatized. Therefore, he was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital for treatments. During his recuperating in Craiglockhart, he met a poet namely Siegfried Sassoon. This  changed his life. He began write, in poetry form. He channeled his traumatized experiences into writing as a way to escape pain that he had to endure mentally and emotionally. Owen was also recognized as the greatest English poet of World War I. He managed to convey his feelings into all the poems he wrote. Words he used was precise and accurate to the point that sometimes the reader could feel what he felt. Some of his greatest works are Dulce et Decorum Est, Insensibility, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility and Strange Meeting. 

References

•  http://www.warpoetry.co.uk
• http://en.wikipedia.org