Poems: Poems World War Edition ( poem, poems, poet, poetry, William Shakespeare, literature, Edgar Allan poem, plays, works )

Collectors Edition! Indeed, this is a book not to be missed by those who love poetry. Owen's verses are mostly gut-wrenching lines that will burn images in your brain, particularly when compared to other poems where the idea of war is an "ideal" and soldiers are knights who know no fear, and are immune to death and pain. Owen's war is different: the men die like rats in the trenches, in their own vomit, and glory and honor are not enough to protect against mustard gas. The poet perished in the first world war is only a final irony in the short life of a sensitive man who saw too much in too short a time.