what was wilfred owen's attitude to the war?

Answer 1

O he loved it! Made him as a poet. Too bad he got killed half an hour before it ended!

Answer 2

Like the vast majority of the people of the time his mind was filled with the idea of war in defence of his country as noble and patriotic the reality changed his mind .He was a devout christian and after a short time at the front he wrote to his mother and said "suffer dishonour and disgrace but never resort to arms.Be bullied be outraged be killed,but do not kill".But it is in his greatest anti war poem Dulce ET Decorum est Pro Patria Mori that Owen shows his full horror of the war.

Answer 3

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 Some of his best-known works - most of which remained unpublished until after his death - include Dulce Et Decorum Est, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility, and Strange Meeting.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'.
On 21 October 1915, he enlisted in the Artists' Rifles. For the next seven months, he was in training at Hare Hall Camp in Essex. In January 1917 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant with The Manchester Regiment. After some traumatic experiences, which included leading his platoon into the Battle of the Somme and getting trapped for 3 days in a shell-hole, Owen was diagnosed as suffering from shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh for treatment. It was whilst recuperating at Craiglockhart that he was to meet fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon, an encounter which was to transform Owen's life for the better.

After returning to the front, Owen led units of the Second Manchesters on 1 October 1918 to storm a number of enemy strongpoints near the village of Joncourt. Owen was killed in action on 4th November 1918, only one week before the end of the war. For his courage and leadership in the Joncourt action, he was posthumously awarded the Military Cross.
Owen is regarded by some as the leading poet of the First World War, known for his war poetry on the horrors of trench and gas warfare.

Answer 4

Read his poem, "Non Dulce Est Pro Patria Mori"

Answer 5

He was "for it" until he had a taste of it himself, after seeing the waste and death and horror of war he became opposed to it. He wrote many poems about it, but died before most of them were published.