Owen’s “Anthem For Doomed Youth”
Wilfred Owen and Rupert Brooke were both poets during the First World War. They both served during the war but it is important to take note of what they actually did. Wilfred Owen fought on the frontline and saw active combat and was horrified by what he saw. He began to express how he felt through poetry when was lying in a hospital bed after being wounded. Although Rupert Brooke also served in the war he never really saw men fighting so he has only been exposed to the propaganda and positive attitude towards the war expressed away from the battlefield. Brooke did decide to join the battlefront in 1915 but died on the way! The fact that both poets viewed the war differently is important as this is reflected through their poetry.