wilfred owen

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Definition von wilfred owen im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch: His single volume of poems, published posthumously, is noted for its experiments in assonance. Benjamin Britten's celebrated War Requiem (1962) is a setting of Owen's poems; a British poet who was a soldier in World War I and whose poems are mainly about the terrible events and experiences of the war. Some of his best-known poems, such as 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', are a protest against the idea that it is honourable to die for your country. He was killed just before the end of the war, and his poems were published after his death (1893-1918). born March 18, 1893, Oswetry, Shropshire, Eng. died Nov. 4, 1918, France British poet. Owen was already writing verse before he enlisted in the army in 1915, but the experience of trench warfare brought him to rapid maturity; the poignant poems he wrote after January 1917 are full of anger at the cruelty and waste of war and pity for its victims. A week before the armistice, he died in action at age

wilfred owen