The famous “war poet” Wilfred Owen was especially known for poetry being very detailed, horrific and realistic compared to the image that the government attempts to create for war. The author of the article Pagan uses humor to draw in the reader as he describes Owen as a “bitter, Jaundice pacifist”. This shows that the author understands the motive and message behind the Owens poetry and agrees with the message to the point where he would consider Owen the “greatest of all war poets”.
As Pagan recollects the change in character of Owen after he Joined the army, using the only source of evidence Owens letters to his mother describing his transition from a “fey and precious young man” Juxtaposed to the “sweaty, noisy men” whom he later belonged to. “Wilfred Owen the soldiers poet” also touches on the challenges and results that Owen had to face after his experience as a solider in World War l. Packmen labels Owen as a “true military hero” as he had become the “advocate” of the soldiers in the first world war.
The horrors of trench and chemical warfare left a mark on Owen and is affected his style and subject of his poetry such as “Dulcet et Decorum Est” mentioned within the article by Pagan. One particularly important event in Owens experience as a soldier is his first hand experience in the midst of a German bombardment resulting in his “lying amid the remains of a popular fellow officer” for days consequentially resulting in him being diagnosed with shell shock.
Pagan touches on this, as this is an important turning point of the subject of his article’s life ND affected his poetry the most, persuasively using sympathy to make the reader understand the reality of World War l. Owens importance as an advocate fugue resulted in a better understanding of the horrors as well as the comradely and bravery required for war. Packmen describes Owen as “the voice of the generation” a metaphoric description that is also symbolic of Owens actions for speaking out against the patriotic ideology of war and making people understand the realism and dangers of war.
