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![]() Wilfred Owen felt a sense of duty to inform the public of the terrible conditions and suffering taking place during the war and quoted, ‘Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. Having being injured in battle, he met Siegfried Sassoon, also injured, in a hospital and went on to encourage each other’s poetry and Sassoon, a well educated man, helped him to improve his drafts. ![]() He then went on to join the army and the horrors that he faced completely changed his life. Owen’s mother had encouraged him to write poetry from an early age and when he was old enough he travelled to France to teach English when the war broke out. His poetry was devised to strike at the conscience of England during the World War. They both follow Wilfred Owen’s angst against those who encourage war and the savagery of warfare that he experienced himself. Wilfred Owen’s ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ are both poems that protest against and depict the subject of war. Comparison Between Wilfred Owen’s and Siegfried Sassoon’s Poems ![]()
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