Who was Wilfur Owen?

Answer 1

I think you mean WilFRED Owen- he was a British soldier-poet of the First World War. Of Anglo-Welsh parentage, he was born in Oswestry in the English border county of Shropshire in 1893, and intended to make a career as a Minister of Religion in the Church of England. Although he failed to get into London University, he went on to study at the University College of Reading and worked as a private tutor of English and French, before the Great War interrupted his studies and he joined up as a private in the Artists Rifles in 1915. Although he started his military service in cheerful, optomistic mood, he quickly became disillusioned and horrified at the appalling carnage and pointlessness of the war, and took to writing poetry as a means of expressing his disgust and outrage. He attained the rank of Second Lieutenant during the war years, for a while being invalided back to Britain to the Craiglockhart psychiatric hospital in Scotland, where he met fellow war poet Siegfried Sassoon and becoming a friend & colleague of his. He returned to the front in 1918, and was killed at the age of just 25 in the last week of the war. His mother received news of his death on 4th November - Armistice Day. Wilfred Owen is now regarded as one of the greatest British poets of the First World War, along with Sassoon, Robert Graves, Edmund Blunden and Edward Thomas. His most famous poems include 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' and 'Strange Meeting'.