Two war poets (WW1)

In English we are doing War Poetry, I thought I would use the research I got to help with the research im going for this Unit as I have it readily available. These two poets fought during WW1 and described what they saw through their poems.

Siegfried Sassoon

• His poetry describes the horror of the trenches and the 'idiotic  patriotism' of those at home
• he captured a German trench single handily  (at first he was very patriotic/eager)
• Military cross - recommended for Victoria cross
• hated war
• his writing dramatic changed as the war progressed
• early poems romanticised war and later turned into dramatic depictions.

Wilfred Owen 

• Took influence from Siegfried
• died Nov 4 1918 sabre-oise canel France (at 25)
• his poetry was a stark contrast to public interpretation or war
• shockingly realistic poetry
• Killed in action 1 week before armistice day
• as WW1 went on his work got darker due to exposure to the true horror of war

these two poets work show the graphic nature of war and I will be looking at there work to build a picture of what the war did to soldier and I have the idea to photocopy their poems and paint over the top of them what it describes so it looks like a collage of what it describe to draw attention and give the poem a life and feel more of what it had before ( it already did but  I wanted to give it a graphic)