Wilfred Owen was a soldier in World War I. He was sent to Craiglockhart Hospital suffering from shellshock where he met fellow poet Siegfried Sassoon. While there, he wrote much of his poetry. He was sent back to the front in July 1918 and was killed in action on 4th November 1918, a week before the war ended. His parents were notified on Armistice Day and it is devastating to think that they would have celebrated the war ending, waiting for their son to return to them.
With so much conflict in our world right now, I wanted to share my favourite Owen poem, Exposure. It is such a sad, quiet poem about the tedium of war. It isn’t his most emotive or graphic poem (‘Dulce et Decorum Est’is another favourite of mine), but it perfectly shows how hopeless the soldiers felt. The video was made by my very talented colleague who is a wonderful teacher but also an amazing illustrator/artist.
Notes From My Day 