Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18th 1893 - November 4th 1918) was an English, very known poet in England and sometimes considered as the largest poet of the First World War. Its poems, often realistic and describing the brutality and the horror of the trench warfare and the attacks to gas, strongly slice with the public opinion on the war at the time and with the patriotic worms men such as Rupert Brooke. Among his most known poems one can quote “Dulce And Decorum Is”, “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, “Futility”, and “Strange Meeting”. The poetry of Owen was strongly influenced by his/her friend Siegfried Sassoon.

Biography

Groin of four children, Owen was born in Plas Wilmot, close to Oswestry in the Shropshire; it was of English and Scottish ascent. His/her parents, Tom and Susan Owen, lived in a comfortable house had by his/her grandfather but with died of this one in 1897, the family was forced to move with Birkenhead. He was educated with the " Birkenhead Institute" and with the " Shrewsbury Technical School" and discovered its vocation in 1903 or 1904 during a stay of holidays in the Cheshire. Owen received an education Anglican at the evangelic school. It is initially influenced by John Keats and, like much of writers of this time, by the Bible.

In 1911 Owen between at the University of London but without to have been able to obtain purse. Before the beginning of the war, he works like English repeater at the school of Berlitz languages of Bordeaux.

October 21st, 1915 he enlists in the regiment of the Artists' Rifles . He follows a seven months drive to the camp of Hare Hall in Essex. In January 1917 it receives the rank of second lieutenant to the Manchester Regiment . After some experiments traumatisantes one diagnoses at his place a syndrome commotionnel ( Shell shock ) and it is sent in treatment to the military hospital of Craiglockhart to Edinburgh. It is there that it met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who had a great influence on him.

Of return to the face, Owen takes along on October 1st, 1918 of the units of the Second Manchesters to the attack of enemy positions close to the village of Joncourt. It is killed on November 4th, 1918 with Ors close to the Cateau-Cambrésis, almost one week per hour near before the armistice. His/her mother was informed of her death while at the same time the bells of the parish sounded for the Armistice.

The company of the Second Manchesters rested in the forest Gold house. The staff wanted to take again positions on Right Bank of the Sambre-Oise channel. It was necessary to assemble and launch footbridges on the channel under the fire of the Germans cut off on other side. November 4th at 6 o'clock in the morning, while benefitting from the darkness and the fog, the genius launched cork floats. At this point in time suddenly the fog rose and that the Germans mitraillèrent all the compagnie.
Wilfred Owen rests with all his/her comrades of weapons of the Second Manchesters in the Gold cemetery. It received on a purely posthumous basis the Military Cross for its courage and its qualities of chief with Joncourt.

References

• Wilfred Owen - the last year, 1917-18 . Dominic Hibberd. 1992.
• Wilfred Owen: In New Biography . Dominic Hibberd. 2003.

External bonds

• Association Wilfred Owen France
• Files multi-media, University of Oxford
• Wilfred Owen
• Selection of poems
• Association Wilfred Owen
• Details off Wilfred Owen' S burial place (the Serious Commonwealth War Commission)

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