Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
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Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
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Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen
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At the beginning of World War 1 there was a wave of fervent patriotism, which resulted in thousands of young men volunteering to fight. Given the rigid class structure at the time, young working-class boys and girls would have finished schooling early, some at the age of twelve. Before the era of te...
Move him into the sun—
Gently its touch awoke him once,
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it woke him, even in France,
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now
The kind old sun will know.
Think how it wakes the seeds—
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs so dear-achieved, are sides
Full-nerved,—still warm,—too hard to stir?
Was it for this the clay grew tall?
—O what made fatuous sunbeams toil
To break earth's sleep at all?
Wilfred Owen released Futility on Tue Jan 01 1918.