Wilfred Owen Biography
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| Wilfred Owen |
War remains ever a
challenge to human civilization. And there are a very few people to think of it
with sanity. The name of Wilfred Owen, however, is remarkable among those few
thinkers. He was a soldier. But he was a poet, too. And he was something more
than a soldier or poet. He was a champion of the cause of peace and humanity.
Owen was born on
18th March, 1893. His birth place is Plas Wilmot, Oswestry. He was a
student of the Birkenhead Institute, Liverpool.
Owen wrote his
first verse when he was barely 10. He showed clearly his poetic fascination
before he was 15. He matriculated from the London University in 1910.
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| Wilfred Owen |
In 1914 he became
a soldier. He was sent to the battlefield of France. He experienced personally
the superhuman inhumanity of war. He was shot dead by the German
machine-gunners on November 4, 1918, 7 days before peace.
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