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    Wilfred Owen

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    Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #gloom #hope #inward #old #old age

    When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to-it leaves nothing. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #disinclined #eliminate #feel #financial #i

    I was a boy when I first realized that the fullest life liveable was a Poet's. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #first #fullest #i #life #poet

    Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote! ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #do you know #hold #i #keats #know

    My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #poetry #subject #war

    After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #almost #east #fighting #history #i

    All a poet can do today is warn. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #today #warn

    Be bullied, be outraged, by killed, but do not kill. ↗


    — Wilfred Owen

    #kill #killed #outraged






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    Robert Graves and Sacheverell Sitwell (who also personally knew him) have stated Owen was homosexual and homoeroticism is a central element in much of Owen's poetry. Literary output
    Only five of Owen's poems were publiWilfred Owend before his death one in fragmentary form. Whilst at Craiglockhart he made friends in Edinburgh's artistic and literary circles and did some teaching at the Tynecastle High School in a poor area of the city.

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

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