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Wilfred Owen

March 18,1898-November 4, 1918. Wilfred Owen. Presented By: Luis Mendez. English and Welsh Ancestry After the death of his grandfather in 1897, hardships fell upon his family forcing them to move to Birkenhead With no money Owens could no longer attend the University of London

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Wilfred Owen

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  1. March 18,1898-November 4, 1918 Wilfred Owen Presented By: Luis Mendez

  2. English and Welsh Ancestry • After the death of his grandfather in 1897, hardships fell upon his family forcing them to move to Birkenhead • With no money Owens could no longer attend the University of London • In 1913 Owens was an English teacher in Bordeaux, France at the Berlitz School of Languages • On October 21, 1915 He enlisted into the Artists’ Rifles Officers’ Training Corps. • June 4, 1916 he was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment • After the entry into WWI he became an unenthusiastic individual • Died in WWI while storming into Joncourt

  3. WWI Era (1914-1918) • Famous poems from Owen’sCollection • 1914 • Anthem for doomed youth • Beauty • A terre • A new heaven • Dulce et Decorum Est • Apologia pro poemate meo • FamousOwen Quotes: • “ These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.” • “All a poet can do today is warn.” • “Children are not meant to be studied, but enjoyed. Only by studying to be pleased do we understand them.”

  4. Asleep Owens describe the scene of an overworked man who is feeling the hardships of the war. His body could go no more. Under his helmet, up against his pack, After so many days of work and waking, Sleep took him by the brow and laid him back. There, in the happy no-time of his sleeping, Death took him by the heart. There heaved a quaking Of the aborted life within leaping, Then chest and sleepy arms once more fell slack. Whether his deeper sleep lie shaded by the shaking Of great wings, and the thoughts that hung the stars, High-pillowed on calm pillows of God’s making, Above these clouds, these rains, these sleets of lead, And these winds’ scimitars, -Or whether yet his thin and sodden head Confuses more and more with the low mould, His hair being one with the grey grass Of finished fields, and wire-scrags rusty-old Who Knows? Who hopes? Who troubles? Let it pass! He sleeps. He sleeps less tremulous, less cold, Than we who wake, and waking say Alas! Death is near but his will to live is still there. Unfortunately, the body can’t fight anymore and death is victor. A much greater indentify is present and with death a new form of life will take form something unknown to man. Only known once death is met. The poor individuals body is left behind and has now become part of the Earth. He now rests in eternal happiness but those who still awake mourn to those who never awoke again.

  5. Any Question Class? In The Memory Of: Wilfred Owen A great poet lost in the great war.

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