What makes Wilfred Owen's poetry so special?

I'd argue the tension between traditional forms of verse and his subject matter and use of poetic devices. Couplets with a slant rhyme scheme create a bizarre structure for a bizarre theme in his Strange Meeting. read more

I'd argue the tension between traditional forms of verse and his subject matter and use of poetic devices. Couplets with a slant rhyme scheme create a bizarre structure for a bizarre theme in his Strange Meeting. read more

However, most of them were published posthumously: Poems (1920),The Poems of Wilfred Owen (1931),The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen (1963),The Complete Poems and Fragments (1983); fundamental in this last collection is the poem Soldier's Dream, that deals with Owen's conception of war. read more

Wilfred Owen was a British poet who, in sharp contrast to such patriotic poets as Rupert Brooke, debunked the glorification of war and wrote instead of the horrors of World War I as well as the impersonal quality of death. Stylistically, Owen often uses the half-rhyme in his poems as well as ironic reversals. read more