Wilfred Owen
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- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
- personal life
- born ion Oswestry, Shropshgire
- educated at Birkenhead institute and Shrewsbury Technical Collage
- at age 19 he knew he wanted to be a poet and immured himself in poetry
- impressed by shelly and keats
- he wrote almost nothing of importance until he saw action in France 1917
- impressed by shelly and keats
- at age 19 he knew he wanted to be a poet and immured himself in poetry
- educated at Birkenhead institute and Shrewsbury Technical Collage
- committed christian he became lay assistant to the vicar of dunsden 1911-1913
- he feat pressured propaganda to become a solderer and volunteered 21/19/1915
- within a week he was on the front line in a cattle wagon
- within a few days he had experienced gas attacks and was horrified by the stench of rotting bodies
- he wrote home 'the people of England needn't hope. they must agitate.'
- he dodged bullets untill the last week of the war but had been through alot of front line action. he had been blown up, concussed and suffred shell-shock
- he met Siegfried Sassoon who inspired him to develop his war poetry
- in October 1918 he won the military cross by seizing German machine -gun
- he met Siegfried Sassoon who inspired him to develop his war poetry
- he dodged bullets untill the last week of the war but had been through alot of front line action. he had been blown up, concussed and suffred shell-shock
- he wrote home 'the people of England needn't hope. they must agitate.'
- within a few days he had experienced gas attacks and was horrified by the stench of rotting bodies
- within a week he was on the front line in a cattle wagon
- he feat pressured propaganda to become a solderer and volunteered 21/19/1915
- born ion Oswestry, Shropshgire
- on November 4th 1918 he was shot and killed near the village of ors.
- personal life
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