what was wilfred owen famous for?

Question

he is a poet who was in one of the world wars.

Answer 1

Poet from the Great War (WW1). He was a soilder, who wrote poems and was injured. He is one the UK national curriculum so all school children will read his poem's.

He is one of the most famous war poets, and told it like it was.

Answer 2

He's also famous for being friends with Sigfried Sassoon, another war poet. Sassoon wrote a famous declaration in which he argued that the war was pointless.
Sassoon and Owen's generation of war poets are famous because they didn't subscribe to or write propaganda for the war, which was greatly unknown to be a disaster back home, but was evidently so from the front line. They both also fought at the Somme, one of the most bloody and costly battles (for us Brits) in the first world war.

Answer 3

Wilfred Owen fought and died in World War 1. He wrote poems about the war, the courage of the soldiers (Futility), the wastage of young lives (Anthem to Doomed Youth) and the dishonesty of war (Dulci et Decorum Est). Wilfred Owen died November 1918, just days before the end of the war.

Answer 4

He was famous for being a poet and being in a war!

Answer 5

He was famous for writing poetry about the First World War.

Answer 6

Most famous for his war poetry.
A little known fact about him is that the word GULLIBLE was first used by him in one of his poems and from that he had to provide the definition for that word ,after which it was added to both the English dictionary and soon after a coomonly used word in the english language

Answer 7

he was a poet in the war and he got killed in action a week before the war ended

Answer 8

Owen was born on 18th March 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire, son of Tom and Susan Owen. After the death of his grandfather in 1897 the family moved to Birkenhead (Merseyside).

His education began at the Birkenhead Institute, and then continued at the Technical School in Shrewsbury when the family were forced to move there in 1906-7 when his father was appointed Assistant Superintendent for the Western Region of the railways. Already displaying a keen interest in the arts, Owen's earliest experiments in poetry began at the age of 17. After failing to attain entrance to the University of London, he spent a year as a lay assistant to the Revd. Herbert Wigan at Dunsden before leaving for Bordeaux, France, to teach at the Berlitz School of English.

During the latter part of 1914 and early 1915 Owen became increasingly aware of the magnitude of the War and he returned to England in September 1915 to enlist in the Artists' Rifles a month later. He received his commission to the Manchester Regiment (5th Battalion) in June 1916, and spent the rest of the year training in England.

1917 in many ways was the pivotal year in his life, although it was to prove to be his penultimate. In January he was posted to France and saw his first action in which he and his men were forced to hold a flooded dug-out in no-man's land for fifty hours whilst under heavy bombardment. In March he was injured with concussion but returned to the front-line in April. In May he was caught in a shell-explosion and when his battalion was eventually relieved he was diagnosed as having shell-shock ('neurasthenia'). He was evacuated to England and on June 26th he arrived at Craiglockhart War Hospital near Edinburgh.

Had Owen not arrived at the hospital at that time one wonders what might have happened to his literary career, for it was here that he met Siegfried Sassoon who was also a patient. Sassoon already had a reputation as a poet and after an awkward introduction he agreed to look over Owen's poems. As well as encouraging Owen to continue, he introduced him to such literary figures as Robert Graves (a friend of Sassoon's) which in turn, after his release from hospital, allowed Owen to mix with such luminaries as Arnold Bennett and H. G. Wells.

The period in Craiglockhart, and the early part of 1918, was in many ways his most creative, and he wrote many of the poems for which he is remembered today. In June 1918 he rejoined his regiment at Scarborough and then in August he returned to France. He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery at Amiens, but was killed on the 4th November whilst attempting to lead his men across the Sambre canal at Ors. The news of his death reached his parents on November 11th 1918, the day of the armistice.

Answer 9

he invented the search engine Google

Answer 10

Flanders and poetry