When did wilfred Owen write futility?

Answer 1

To summarise, Insensibility is a poem in which Owen criticises those who have never experienced war for being insensitive to what the soldiers have to do to survive (become brutes, ignorant of the pain they have to cause).

Answer 2

He disscusses the different attitudes to war:

Stanzas 1-3: Soldiers at War, numbed to the horrors

Stanza 4: Soldiers on leave-kucky

Stanza 5: The poets, who tell the truth of war

Stanza 6: The "Dullards" back at home who think it is a game

Insensibility talks about the loss of innocence, pity of war and Owen's anger at ignorance.

Answer 3

Although Wilfred Owen is best remembered as a poet of WW1, he had poetical aspirations long before the war. There is evidence he was writing poetry early in his life.

In a letter to his mother while still a student he wrote:

I felt my boyhood fill

With uncontainable movements; there was born

My poethood.

There is no firm date on when he started writing poetry. However, the bulk of the work he is best known for was written in 1917 and 1918. It was then that he really felt he had become a poet:

I go out of this year a poet, my dear mother, as which I did not enter it. I am held peer by the Georgians; I am a poet's poet. I am started.

letter to his mother, Dec. 1917

Oxford University has a digital archive of his original hand written poems. Type in Wilfred Owen in the search menu when you get there and the papers will be viewable.

Answer 4

Wilfred Owen wrote the poem "Futility" in 1917 during World War I. It reflects the despair and disillusionment experienced by soldiers on the front lines.

Answer 5

It was written in October-November 1917.

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Answer 6

Almost all poems of Wilfred Owen were written during the last two years of his life, 1917 and 1918.

Answer 7

in World War 1, the war vs Vietnam.

Answer 8

1918