The best poems of Wilfred Owen selected by Dr Oliver Tearle Previously, we’ve selected ten of the best poems about the First World War; but of all the English poets to write about that conflict, one name towers above the rest: Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). Here’s our pick of Wilfred Owen’s […]
A reading of a classic war poem Edward Thomas’s poem ‘Rain’ was written in 1916, while Thomas was fighting in the trenches. What follows is the poem, followed by a brief analysis of some of its language, motifs, and images. Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain On this […]
Charles Hamilton Sorley’s haunting poem of WWI: an analysis The Scottish war poet Charles Hamilton Sorley was just 20 years old when he died in 1915 at the Battle of Loos. He was the youngest of the major war poets, having been born in 1895. He left this poem, probably […]