By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) ‘Strange Meeting’ is one of Wilfred Owen’s greatest poems. After ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ and ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ it is one of his most popular and widely studied and analysed. Siegfried Sassoon called ‘Strange Meeting’ Owen’s passport to immortality; it’s certainly true that […]
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A Short Analysis of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
By Dr Oliver Tearle ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ is probably, after ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’, Wilfred Owen’s best-known poem. But like many well-known poems, it’s possible that we know it so well that we hardly really know it at all. In the following post, we offer a short analysis of […]
A Short Analysis of Wilfred Owen’s ‘Arms and the Boy’
A critical reading of a war poem ‘Arms and the Boy’ is one of the most powerful war poems written by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918). In this post, we analyse Owen’s poem in terms of its overall meaning, but also offer a close reading of the poem’s language and imagery. Arms […]
The Best War Poems Everyone Should Read
By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) There are many great war poems out there and there have been a great number of popular war poets. Putting together a universal list of the best war poetry raises all sorts of questions. But since such a list will always be a matter of […]
Five Fascinating Facts about War Poetry
Facts about the war poets and their poetry, as well as other links between poetry and war 1. The link between poppies and war remembrance dates from the Napoleonic wars, when a writer noted that they flourished over soldiers’ graves. As The History Press website notes: ‘there are several anonymous documents written […]