what was wilfred owen famous for?

Question

a poet who was in one of the world wars

Answer 1

Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18, 1893 – November 4, 1918) was an English poet and soldier, regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works - most of which remained unpublished until after his death - include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, and Strange Meeting. His preface intended for a book of poems to be published in 1919 contains numerous well-known phrases, especially 'War, and the pity of War', and 'the Poetry is in the pity'.

He is perhaps just as well-known for having been killed in action at the Sambre-Oise Canal just a week before the war ended, causing news of his death to reach home as the town's church bells declared peace.

Answer 2

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 3

1 Some of the most moving poetry ever written in war ( see Dulce et Decorum Est: Anthem for Doomed Youth etc )
2 Friend of Seigreid Sasson also war poet
3 Died a couple of weeks before World War One Ended
4 for saying "the poetry is in the pity"

Answer 4

He is one of the most famous war poets of the first world war. His most famous poems are:
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Dulce et Decorum Est

He said:"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."
This site has all of his poems online:
http://www.hcu.ox.ac.uk/jtap/warpoems.htm

Answer 5

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 6

He was a soldier poet during the first world war, he wrote in his poems of the real horror of the war.

Answer 7

He's a war poet who wrote from the trenches in the first world war. His best known poem is Dulce et Decorum est:

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind.

Gas! Gas! Quick, boys! – An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling,
And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime . . .
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light,
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.
In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie; Dulce et Decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Dulce et Decorum est Pro patria mori is a line from a Latin Poem by Horace and means "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country".

He was shot and killed in an attack on the Village of Ors on the fourth of November 1918 after having survived two years in the front line and a year in the reserves. 7 days later of course Germany surrendered and the war was over.

His second most famous poem is "Anthem For Doomed Youth".

Answer 8

Strange - when I was in school about four hundred years ago, I was taught that the following poem was written by W.O., but apparently (according to google et. al.) my teacher was wrong.
It's much better if you have two people reading it out loud, the army sergeant and the guy who's staring out the window.
I also thought that W.O. died in the trenches, but I'm beginning to question that, too.
http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/namingofparts.html

Answer 9

He wrote poems about world war one, we studied him for English when i was at school, he describes the disgusting conditions of living in the trenches and watching people die really

Answer 10

He was one of the best known WW1 poets.
Of all his verse, the most commonly referred to is probably
"Dulce Et Decorum Est"