Wilfred Owen and Brecht

Wilfred Owen is indisputably one of the best war poets of 20th century. For him war was nothing but a futile exercise that produces mass death and destruction. It is amazing what the poet managed to achieve in his short life of 25 years before getting killed during the First World War. Despite his youth, Owen displayed eat maturity in his work and his work reflects his anger, frustration, hatred and intense disappointment at the futility of war. In his poem 'Strange Meeting', he encapsulated his views on war and his generation's experience of the same in one single line: 'The pity of war, the pity war distilled'. This line was followed by his prophetic views on war and its effects on people:

Now men will go content with what we spoiled.

Or discontent, boil bloody and be spilled.

They will be swift with swiftness of...
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