What is the significance of Wilfred Owen's anti-war poems?

Wilfred Owen, one of approximately nine million fatalities in World War I, was killed in action on the Sambre Canal just seven days before the Armistice on November 4, 1918, this, as in many of his poems, is ironic. read more

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) poet, patriot, solider, pacifist"My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity." Wilfred Owen, one of approximately 9,000,000 millions fatalities in World War I, was killed in action on the Sambre Canal just seven days before the Armistice on November 4, 1918. read more

‘Futility’ was one of just five poems by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) that were published before his death, aged 25, on 4 November 1918. Like all of his best-known work it’s a war poem, a brief lyric that focuses on a group of soldiers standing over the dead body of a fallen comrade. read more