Wilfred Owen context Flashcards
When did Wilfred Owen die?
4th November (a week before the Armistice)
Who was Owen’s work inspired by?
The Literary greats- Keats and Shelley
What was Owen’s self-appointed task?
Talk about the ‘Pity of War’
When and where did Owen meet Siegfried Sassoon?
Craiglockhart, August 1917
Why did Sassoon write poetry?
Had spoke to pacifists, such as Bertrand Russell. Thought politicians were no longer honourable, financial proposition.
Which of Owen’s poems were inspired by Sassoon?
The Dead-Beat
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Dulce et Decorum Est
When and how did Robert Graves inspire Owen?
Told him to have a ‘spirit above wars’
When was the huge German Offensive?
March 1918, showed Owen that Germany still wanted to win the war.
What did the huge German offensive inspire for Owen?
‘Futility’
‘The Send-Off’
‘Strange Meeting’
What was Dulce et Decorum Est inspired by?
Gas attack on the 12th of January that he experienced first-hand.
Quote in letters:
Wealthy that ‘might relieve us and will not’.
‘Is it that we are dying?’
Delirium evident.
‘Slowly our ghosts drag home’.
Long ‘oh’ sounds, death to conditions is a tedious and drawn-out condition.
‘Crusted dark-red jewels’.
Figuratively describing dried blood, brutality of war.
Epinome:
Fire.
‘Sunk fires’
‘Fires burn’
Images of destruction from the war.
