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In Exposure, Wilfred Owen looks at the horrors of warfare. The poem’s content, ideas, language and structure are explored. Comparisons and alternative interpretations are also considered.
Today, we celebrate Memorial Day. In the light of this commemoration, we might once again consider World War I and its legacy. As chroniclers of the period have noted, in addition to our political ...
Wilfred Owen’s grave at Ors Cemetery in France. Hektor via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-ND. These poetic phantoms, spectres, ghosts were not shaped by the fighting alone; more than the trenches, it ...
Wilfred Owen: A Remembrance Tale is on BBC1 on Nov 11 at 5.50pm. Jeremy Paxman has asked that his fee for this article be given to the Poppy Appeal; Colour image from World War One in Colour, ...
Wilfred Owen served and died in World War I at the age of 25. His poems refute the glory of wars and explore their harshness for those who actually fight them.
Some of Owen's poetry, which explored the brutal reality of war, was also recited and his final letter home was read out. Fiona MacDonald from the Wilfred Owen Association described the service as ...
Terence Davies writes and directs a film about World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon that focuses less on his experiences in the Great War and more on his sexuality.
Joanne Harris told the BBC's Inside Out programme for Yorkshire & Lincolnshire, “Wilfred Owen’s war records show he arrived on the Western Front in 1917, in one of the coldest winters in memory.
In Exposure, Wilfred Owen looks at the horrors of warfare. The poem’s content, ideas, language and structure are explored. Comparisons and alternative interpretations are also considered.
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