Wilfred Owen

Poems: Futility; Insensibility & Links about Owen

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Lieutenant Wilfred Owen, M.C., an officer of the Manchester Regiment, was killed in action on the Sambre Canal a week before the Armistice, aged 25. The twenty-three poems of this collection are the fruit of not quite two years' active service, less than half of it in the field. But they are enough to rank him among the very few war poets whose work has more than a passing value.
Others have shown the disenchantment of war, have unlegended the roselight and romance of it, but none with such compassion for the disenchanted or such sternly just and justly stern judgment on the idyllisers.
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Today is the birthday (1926) of Princess Elizabeth Alexandra Mary of York (as she then was), now Queen Elizabeth II by the Grace of God, Queen of this Realm (the United Kingdoms of England, Scotland & Ireland) and of Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith, who lived through World War II.

Tomorrow is the birthday (1889) of Adolf Hitler, who fought in World War I & died a few months before the end of World War II.

On Friday (April 25th) is the most important war memorial day in Australasia, ANZAC Day, commemorating the first landings at Anzac Cove, Gallipolli, near the Dardenelles in Turkey in the cool dawn of April 25th, 1915. The results of the effect of that World War I on the Middle East are still reverberating there today (as are many of its effects in other areas, including the Russian Revolution in 1917 & its 'second phase' in WW II).

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