Tag Archives: Wilfred Owen

Would I Were in Grantchester

By Robin Bates | Published: March 13, 2015

The BBC series “Grantchester” owes its inspiration to a Rupert Brooke poem.

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The Fellowship of Soldiers

By Robin Bates | Published: November 10, 2014

In a poem for Veterans Day, Wilfred Owen captures the heartfelt emotions and the bonding that soldiers experience. Some of these emotions are genuinely moving, others are disturbing.

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Poetry Changed during World War I

By Robin Bates | Published: August 5, 2014

The horrors of World War I created some great poetry. But not in its early days.

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He Sleeps Less Cold Than We Who Wake

By Robin Bates | Published: May 26, 2014

Wilfred Owen’s “Asleep” looks with sorrow at the death of a comrade.

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Hagel: “No Glory, Only Suffering in War”

By Robin Bates | Published: February 4, 2013

Some of Chuck Hagel’s statements about war are reminiscent of the anti-war poetry of Wilfred Owen.

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Lamentation and Weeping in Newtown

By Robin Bates | Published: December 15, 2012

The Sandy Hook killings recall the Biblical massacre of the innocents, referenced in “Moby Dick.”

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Sacrifice Ram of Pride, Not Isaac

By Robin Bates | Published: November 4, 2012

Rumi honors the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha, which centers on the story of Abraham and Isaac.

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Memorializing Our Lost Innocence

By Robin Bates | Published: May 28, 2012

Wilfred Owen’s “Strange Meeting” is not only about the soldiers who have died but how their death taints the living.

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Weep, For You May Touch Them Not

By Robin Bates | Published: May 30, 2011

In his poem “Greater Love,” Owen describes two deaths. One is the physical death of soldiers, which is tragic enough. But the other death is also heartbreaking: the death of innocence that occurs when people become intimately acquainted with war.

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