What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle Can patter out their hasty orisons. No mockeries now for them; no ...

Wilfred Owen wrote poems about the horrors of war from his personal experience whilst serving in the British Army in France during World War One. He demonstrated his love of writing from an early ...

Wilfred Owen said, ‘My subject is War ... We can see his changes in the title of the poem. The famous title: Anthem for Doomed Youth actually began as Anthem for Dead Youth.

Wilfred Owen was killed in France just one week before ... it remains the most damning poetic response to the conflict. "It was really the best poetry of the First World war," Glass said.