Top Ten Wilfred Owen Poems
Serves as a duel rejection of both the horrors of war and of religion.
A soldier relates a dream he had in which Jesus Christ had destroyed all weapons of war on both sides, even going back into history. However, God was angry at this action so sent the Archangel Michael, the leader of God’s army, to repair everything, which the soldier discovers when he awakens.
This poem captures the repercussions of war that is the damage to the minds of men. Shell shock.
Set upon a battle between British and German soldiers.
A dark and cynical poem about the horrors of war, the pointless loss of life and war’s ineffectiveness.
A disturbing poem that depicts through poignant images of armaments the true nature of war.
Angry, raging poem about the gains from the war, at the behest and the suffering of the soldiers, questions whether or not the war, with its price of the human innocence lost, and the human suffering experience, was worth it.
This poem shows that the incessant shelling has destroyed the soldiers emotionally and physically as if there exposure to war has dulled their senses.