Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen was born on 18th march 1893 and died 4th November 1918. He was a British poet, and was in the British army as well. In the summer of 1917, Wilfred went to a hospital in Edinburg for treatment for a shell shock, where he met Siegfried Sassoon, who also was a poet and an officer. This meeting with Siegfried changed Wilfred’s poesy to realism about the war. 
Wilfred Owen was born in Weston Lane in Shropshire. He is half English and half welsh. He was the eldest of 4 children. 
In 1898, Wilfred’s father, Thomas, got a job as stationmaster in Birkenhead at Woodside station, where they had no less than three homes. Wilfred was educated from Birkenhead Institute and later Shrewsbury Technical School. Wilfred was raised as an Anglican, and was in his youth a very strong believer. He had throughout his whole life, a strong relationship to his mother. 
In 1911 he passed his exam at the University of London, but not with the first-class honours, which was needed to get a scholarship, which was the only way his family could afford him to study there. 
In 1913, Wilfred went to Bordeaux, France to teach in English and French.
Wilfred was killed at the age of only 25, in the first world war, in the Sambre-Oise Canal in France, only one week before the end of the war. 



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Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon is born 8 September 1886 and died the 1 September 1967 in a ages of 80 by stomach cancer. Siegfried Sassoon was an English poet, novelist, biographer and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front. He became one of the leading poets of the First World War.

He was born and raised in Matfield in England. His father Alfred Ezra Sassoon was Jewish and his mother Theresa Sassoon was an Anglo-Catholic. Sassoon was the second son of three sons, the others was called Michael and Hamo.

During Sassoons youth his biggest interest was fox-hunting, because he did not finish his studies and in this period he wrote some poetry, but did not get much intention. In 1914 he got into the army after the outbreak to World War 1. But a broken arm prevented him to get in battle. He came first in active battle in 1915. 1 November same year his younger brother Hamo was killed.

Sassoon was homosexual but got married to Hester Gatty and got his only son George. The marriage ended after the Word War 2.

And apparently he got a “relationship to the author and soldier Wilfred Owen, that we had read the famous poem “Dulce et Decorum Est”. Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfred Owen at the military school, and in 1917 they were both in a hospital in Edinburgh for shell chock.

The genre he wrote was Poetry, Fiction, Biography. 

Written by Nanna Gjesing

Siegfried Sassoon, "Base Details"

Consider the fact that the title of this poem might have a double meaning! What could it be?

Listen to the poem here.

Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est

Read by Christopher Eccleston.

 

 

 



Rupert Brooke: The Soldier

INTRO: What is war good for?

Summary of non-fiction text about Britain

Hello everyone,
Individually or in pairs, you have to write a summary of the non-fiction text you worked with on 22 October 2013. If you weren't present that day just pick one of the texts (they are attached on Ludus for today's lessons).

Remember all the things that a summary of a non-fiction text must include and must not include and write approximately 150 words.

When you have written the summary put it in a comment on this blog post.