{"id":1820,"date":"2010-05-08T19:45:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-08T19:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/?p=1820"},"modified":"2010-06-29T22:50:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T22:50:27","slug":"the-pity-of-war-wilfred-owen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/08\/the-pity-of-war-wilfred-owen\/","title":{"rendered":"the pity of war. wilfred owen."},"content":{"rendered":"

“My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”<\/p>\n

– Wilfred Owen <\/p>\n

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Wilfred Owen – Poetry of The Great War<\/center><\/p>\n

Wilfred Owen<\/a> (whom I adore…exceedingly) was a British poet and soldier who signed up for the Artists\u2019 Rifles in 1915. He was known for his shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare – images which sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets. <\/p>\n

Owen was killed in action on November 4 1918, just a week before the war ended. He was 25 years old. <\/p>\n

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Wilfred Owen – Dulce et Decorum Est<\/center><\/p>\n

Launched 90 years after the end of the First World War, the University of Oxford\u2019s The First World War Digital Archive<\/a> now comprises over 7,000 digital images relating to the poets of the Great War. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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