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That it required an awful war to inspire Wilfred Owen to write a few of the 20th century's best poetry is symbolic of this great calamity. In a very brilliant, languorous, mesmerizing style, Owen has remaining humanity the terms of damage.When the fantastic Conflict broke out in 1914, Owen, along with millions of his compatriots, were drawn into the maw of the world's first mechanized battle. The savagery and appalling lack of life would change mankind forever. And it is at the poetry of Wilfred Owen these changes first became express.Owen was born in 1893 in Shropshire. He was employed in teaching up until the outbreak of World Conflict I and signed up with the army as an exclusive in 1915. He was wiped out in action on November the 4th, 1919 while leading his men across the Sambre Canal...a week prior to the armistice ending the battle. His promotion to Lieutenant acquired just been approved. Back Owen's home town a week later, the chapel bells started pealing to announce the armistice at the complete moment his mother received the news of his death.One of them tracking are his other poems and fragments, constituting his complete poetic output.
