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"The most remarkable aspect of Owen's stay at the hospital, though, is the fact that he emerged not merely as the author of some of the most stunning poetry of the 20th century – and the voice of a generation – but that he was also determined to return to the front line.

Sassoon begged him not to go, and even threatened, at one point, to stab him in the leg to prevent him doing so.

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"By the end of the First World War, he had become not only their advocate but a true military hero himself."

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1911 - Owen made his first attempts reading and writing poetry. He had a very good instinct for the modulation of rhythms (ear for sound) and was very talented related to musical ability (shared with his parents)

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"Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead"

"All a poet can do today is warn"

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1918 - Owen was killed on the 4th November while trying to lead his men across the Sambre Canal at Ors. His parents found out about his death on the 11th November, the day of the armistice.

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1917 - Owen was posted to France and saw his first action - he takes half of his troops and occupies a former German bunker in No Man's land where one of the soldiers got blinded. This incident then became the subject of "The Sentry".

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1911 - Owen became for one year an unpaid lay assistant in the Church of England where he agreed to assist with the care of the poor and sick and there he gained a fuller understanding of social and economic issues and developed humanitarian propensities.

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was sent to the front line in 1918.

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Owen's poetry was published by Sassoon after his death and today Owen is regarded as one of the most talented poets of the period

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"On the 30th April whilst on parade he was noted as being ‘shaky’ and on 1st May he was diagnosed as suffering from shell-shock ('neurasthenia') and evacuated to England."

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No evidence of being homosexual. However there are some rumours

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Influenced by John Keats- a famous poet who write in the romantic style and with mostly naturalistic langauge.

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1918 - Owen was awarded with the Military Cross for bravery at Amiens

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"During this period of relaxation Wilfred Owen wrote

what critics often label his first 'war-poem' - 'Uriconium, an Ode' - after visiting an archaeological dig."

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promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in 1916.

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"The young poet found considerable material in the poverty and death he observed working for the church. His 'compassion' was often very close to morbidity.

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During his time in France as a tutor he visited a war hospital in 1915where he saw the horror of war but still felt that he was disconnected from the war.

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"Away from his mother's influence he became critical of evangelical religion"

"Such thoughts led to a difficult and troubled period during January 1913, when Wilfred and Dunsden's vicar appear to have argued, and - or because perhaps as a result of - Owen suffered a near nervous breakdown"

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1913 - Owen went to Bordeaux, France to tech English in the Berlitz School

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Wilfred Owen said there was a "heroic feeling about being in France"

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Met Siegfried Sasson in hospital, who was the most significant contributor to the tone in Wilfred Owen's later poetry (from about 1917 onwards) . They became best friends. He was like a tutor to him in hospital, and introduced him to other intellectuals such as to Robert Graves and H.G Wells

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"The old lie: Dulce et decorum est, Pro patria mori."

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Awarded the "Military Cross" for seizing an enemy machine gun during the "Fonsomme Line" on October first or seccond, 1918, inflicting numerous enemy casualties

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Physiologically wounded in combat in 1917 and evacuated to Craiglockhant War Hospital, in Edinburgh for shellshock

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Spent 1 year in France tutoring 2 boys. He met older poet Laurent Tailhade

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15.9.1915

Moves to Bordeaux to teach English.

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"Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity

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was trained to become an officer at "1st Class shot" but rejected from becoming a pilot in the Royal Air Force

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Lead in the battle of Jancourt.

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Wilfred Owen was extremely aware of social, economic issues and felt disillusioned with the inadequate response from the church.

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"Dulce et Decorum est."

"Anthem for Doomed Youth"
"Exposure"
"Strange Meeting"
"Spring Offensive"

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Sasoon was a great influence to Owen as he encouraged him to explore his shell shock in the form of his nightmares and flashbacks through poetry

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Owen expressed annoyance towards all women except for his mother and he was attracted to other...?

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Becomes tutor to Mme Leger

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Wilfred Owen became an assistant to Reverend Herbert Wigan

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"Owen's death was followed by one of World War One's
most iconic stories: when the telegram reporting his demise was delivered to his parents, the local church bells could be heard ringing in celebration of the armistice"

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Hariett Shaw, mother of Wilfred Owen,

felt that her marriage limited her intellectual,

economical and musical abilities

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Had a very close relationship

with his mother and sent her over

664 letters while he was away,

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1897 - Wilfred developed a protective attitude and close relationship towards his mother

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6.1.1917 Moves to the french front.

Etaples.

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Wilfred Owen was the eldest of 4 siblings

Mary Millard Owen was born in 1896 - doctors said she wouldn't survive but she did, never grew taller than 5 feet

William Harold Owen was born in 1897

Colin Owen was born in 1900 - he had rickets and his legs were in iron most of the time of his childhood

(Kira)

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KIA on 4th November 1918 on the Oise Sambre Canal only 1 week (to the hour) prior to the armistice agreement. His parents received the telegram of his death as the church bells rang to celebrate the armistice

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1893: 18th of March: born Plas Wilmot, Oswestry

1897: Family moves to Birkenhead

1906: Family moves to Shrewsberry

1911: becomes lay assistant at Dunsden

1913: February: leaves Dunsden

September: teaches English in France

1914: June: tutoring in family in the Pyrenees, meets french poet Laurent Tailhade

December: tutoring in English family in France

1915: back to France after brief visit home, returns to England and enlists in London Regiment, which shortly afterwards became the second artists riffles officers training corps

1916: commissioned into Manchester Regiment, with friend 2/Lt. Gregg devises improvement to gas mask; in 25th Bn. Middle Sex Regiment is classified as "1st class shot"; official end to battle of Somme; Christmas: embarkation leave

1917: several battles; rejoins the battalion; C.O. Leutnant Colonel Luxmoore notices that Owen is unwell -> evacuated w. shell shock; arrives at hospital, meets Siegfried Sasson and Robert Graves; writes several poems, after leave= posted to 5th Bn. manchester at Scarborough

1918: attends Robert Graves' wedding, passed fit for service and joins Battalion again, sees Siegfried Sasson wounded in battalion-> returns to France, back again in battalion, killed in action on banks of the Sambre- Oise canal

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As a child, Owen after tended to his school work and read lots of books, so becoming heavily involved in his academics.

After school, Owen had gone and took a job as a junior teacher, but that was short lived as he took the entrance exams to get into University of London. Owen applied to, and was accepted to University of London. However, he could not afford the tuition and was not offered a scholarship, so he had gone and followed his mothers wishes to become a priest.

He was working at the Vicar of Dunsden to become a lay assistant. However, whilst working, he s tudied at the University College, Reading for botany, archaeology, the arts and more and was later on persuaded into studying Old English.

He became discouraged by the church and their inactivity to help the poor, and renounced his faith, leaving for a teaching post at the Berlitz School of Languages in Bordeaux, France. There he taught English for long hours at low pay.

At this point Owen would meet Laurent Tailhade, a published poet, who encouraged him to write more poetry. This is also where the war would begin.

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- Wilfred Owen went to a technical school in Sherwsbury

- was injured in 1915 and then met the poet Sassoon in a hospital in Craiglockart because of a shellshock

- poems are often graphically illustrated and in contrast to the usual patriotic texts of WW1

- enlisted in the war out of intrest

- fought as a second lieutenant after his training

- was awarded the military cross short before his death

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Wilfred Owen didn't start his life wanting
to be a poet... what was it he trained to be?

Lay Assistant