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Apologia Pro Poemate Meo is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It deals with the atrocities of World War I. The title means "an explanation for my poetry" and therefore this poem gives an insight into Wilfred Owen's intent when writing his poetry.

The poem describes some of the horrors of war and how this leads to a lack of emotion and a desensitisation to death. However the key message of the poem is revealed in the final two stanzas criticizing "you" at home (contemporary readers) for using war propaganda and images as a form of entertainment "These men are worth/ Your tears. You are not worth their merriment".

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Poems by Wilfred Owen

"1914" · "A New Heaven" · "A Terre" · "Anthem for Doomed Youth" · "Apologia Pro Poemate Meo" · "Arms and the Boy" · "As Bronze may be much Beautified" · "Asleep" · "At a Calvary near the Ancre" · "Beauty" · "But I was Looking at the Permanent Stars" · "Conscious" · "Cramped in that Funnelled Hole" · "Disabled" · "Dulce et Decorum est" · "Elegy in April and September" · "Exposure" · "Futility" · "Greater Love" · "Happiness" · "Has Your Soul Sipped?" · "Hospital Barge" · "I Saw His Round Mouth's Crimson" · "Insensibility" · "Inspection" · "Le Christianisme" · "Mental Cases" · "Miners" · "Music" · "S. I. W." · "Schoolmistress" · "Six O'Clock in Princes Street" · "Smile, Smile, Smile" · "Soldier's Dream" · "Sonnet On Seeing a Piece of our Heavy Artillery Brought into Action" · "Spells and Incantations" · "Spring Offensive" · "Strange Meeting" · "The Calls" · "The Chances" · "The Dead-Beat" · "The End" · "The Kind Ghosts" · "The Last Laugh" · "The Letter" · "The Next War" · "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" · "The Roads Also" · "The Send-off" · "The Sentry" · "The Show" · "The Wrestlers" · "Training" · "Uriconium An Ode" · "Wild With All Regrets" · "With an Identity Disc"

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