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Elizabeth S. MorrisProfessor Owens
English 110218 July 2010
Wilfred Owen
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“My subject is War,
and the pity of War.
The Poetry is in
the pity."
- Wilfred Owen
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“The subject made the poet: the poet made poems
which radically changed our attitude towards war”
- C. Day Lewis, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen
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The Manchester Regiment Source BBC
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The Were Bombarded From the Sky's
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Gas! GAS! Quick boys!" (9)
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The First War to Use Chemical Warfare
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Shell ShockShakingLack of ConcentrationMemory LoseAnxietyDepressionFlashbacksNightmaresGuilt
Reliving Traumatic Event
Lack of ConcentrationMemory ProblemsAnxietyEmotionally NumbReliving Traumatic Event
Upsetting DreamsGuilt
Psychological Disorder Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
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Craiglockhart War Hospital
‘Shell-shock’ treatmentSiegfried SassoonEmerged as a War Poet
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Siegfried SassoonGreat War poet Criticized, praised
and admired Wilfred Owen
Owen “could strike attitudes and strived for effective gestures”
- Sassoon 1920
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“Half the seed of Europe, one by one”
Slain by Abrahams knife
Near the banks of the Sambre-Oise canal November 4, 1918
“The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori”
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Lewis, C. Day. Introduction. The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen. London: Chatto and Windus, 1963. Print.
Sassoon, Siegfried. “Some Aspects of War Poetry in England: The Harrowing Battle of Poetry vs. Rhetoric”. Vanity Fair April 1920: 3. 15 July 2010
Owen, Wilfred. “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Backpack Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, Drama, and Writing. Ed. X. J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. 3rd ed. New York:Longman, 2010. 417-419. Print.
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