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In his preface Wilfred Owen stated "Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is war and the Pity of War". Making close reference to the war poems, discuss how Owen saw his role as a poet during the war.

Wilfred Owen had wanted to be a poet ever since he was nineteen years old. However, it was his involvement in the First World War that prompted him to actually immerse himself in writing. Despite having great admiration for both Keats and Shelley, he moved away from their Romanticism mainly because he was enduring terror beyond what they could have possibly imagined. Thus Owen drifted away from the fanciful techniques of his idols and focused on the realism of the subject of his poetry. Owen wanted the soldiers' sufferings to be made public; he contributed to this greatly through his poetry. In this manner, Owen described with horrific detail, both universal as well as individual suffering.

As a poet, Wilfred Owen felt that it was his duty to expose the......

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