First World Wilfred Owen Research Paper

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In their chart topping song “Sonday Bloody Sunday” the band U2 sang the lines, “And the battle's just begun/ There's many lost, but tell me who has won/ The trench is dug within our hearts/ And mothers, children, brothers, sisters / Torn apart/ And the battle's just begun/ There's many lost, but tell me who has won/ The trench is dug within our hearts/ And mothers, children, brothers, sisters / Torn apart” the lines were written about an event in Northern Ireland where civilians were murdered by British soldiers. The band wanted to speak out against unjust and unfair violence. Innocent people died in an unjust way, similar to World War I. The first world war consisted of many deaths, most of which are considered avoidable and unreasoned. World …show more content…

Wilfred Owen became well known as a poet during the world war one era, later being refer to as one of the first great war poets. Wilfred Owen was born in England during the year 1893 to a small family living nothern towards the Welsh border. During Owen’s adult life the first world war broke out and this event later became of Owen’s biggest inspirations. After failing to gain admittance to several schools for writing around England Owen took to the British Military, perhaps in search of only serving his country he stumbled upon a new view of the “Great …show more content…

The First World War took a grip on the whole continent of Europe, by taking the lives of many people in the bloody war, “Millions of people - military and civilian - in every combatant nation had to cope with the war experience and its aftermath” (Winter). The first World War consisted of mass amounts of bloodshed and disrupted many lives of those in and around Europe. Battles were long, under terrible conditions, and all the conflict lasted four years, leading to many casualties and changing the way many civilians and soldiers thought of war and nationalistic pride. One of the most horrific and terrible weapon used by forces during the great war was chemical gas, one historian wrote, “The development, production, and deployment of war gases such as chlorine, phosgene, and mustard created a new and complex public health threat that endangered not only soldiers and civilians on the battlefield but also chemical workers on the homefront” (Winter). Poisonous gas factored not just into the war but also factored into the letters and poetry of Wilfred Owen. World War I was the first time warring nations used chemical warfare, increasing the number of casualties and furthering the already despicable conditions. The Great War further disrupted lives of families and individuals and also lost support from the people because it