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Wilfred Owen
English
Soldier
Born:
Mar 18
,
1893
Died:
Nov 4
,
1918
Am
Distasteful
Life
Me
Poet
War
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My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.
Wilfred Owen
War
Poetry
Subject
Pity
We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death... The marvel is we did not all die of cold.
Wilfred Owen
Life
Death
Signs
Cold
Sign
Thousand
Horizon
Marvel
Were
Did
Die
Frozen
Desert
If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.
Wilfred Owen
Good
Else
Soldier
Must
Unthinkable
Got
Anything
Anything Else
After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.
Wilfred Owen
History
Reading
Fighting
Soldiers
East
See
Almost
Years
Mania
After
Then
Serve
Playing
Be bullied, be outraged, be killed, but do not kill.
Wilfred Owen
Outraged
Bullied
Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.
Wilfred Owen
Home
Fear
Both
Poetry
Never
Force
Thank
Behind
She is elegant rather than belle.
Wilfred Owen
Rather
She
Than
Elegant
Belle
Those who have no hope pass their old age shrouded with an inward gloom.
Wilfred Owen
Hope
Age
Old
Old Age
Those
No Hope
Inward
Gloom
Pass
Who
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
Wilfred Owen
Reading
Thinking
Only
Poetical
Generality
Scientific
Am
Off
Any
Satisfaction
Rounds
Conscious
Vagueness
Numbers of the old people cannot read. Those who can seldom do.
Wilfred Owen
People
Old
Those
Seldom
Read
Cannot
Old People
Who
Numbers
The English say, Yours Truly, and mean it. The Italians say, I kiss your feet, and mean, I kick your head.
Wilfred Owen
Kiss
Kick
Say
Head
Feet
Truly
Italians
Mean
Your
Yours
English
When I begin to eliminate from the list all those professions which are impossible from a financial point of view and then those which I feel disinclined to - it leaves nothing.
Wilfred Owen
Financial
Impossible
Nothing
Those
Point
Point Of View
Feel
Leaves
Begin
List
Which
Then
View
Professions
Eliminate
I am marooned on a Crag of Superiority in an ocean of soldiers.
Wilfred Owen
Ocean
Soldiers
Superiority
Am
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