In World War One many people had very different opinions on the War. Most of the men of that time basically had no say rather or not they went to war because it would take away their families pride. Most of this centered around Nationalism, and pride. Though many people died in this war, their were still many who survived to give there stories, and opinions.
Wilfred Owen, born on March 18, 1893. In September, 1915, Owen decided to return to England and enlist because he visited a hospital for the wounded, which gave him inspiration to enlist. Owen once said "I came out in order to help these boys, directly by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can. I have done the first" (October, 1918). .
In 1918, after returning to the front lines from a injury, Owen was killed in a German Machine gun attack.
Owen was very opinionated. He was also known as a very good poet and once said "My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity." (Owen). One of his poems: .
Futility .
Move him into the sun -.
Gently its touch awoke him once,.
At home, whispering of fields unsown.
Always it woke him, even in France,.
Until this morning and this snow.
If anything might rouse him now.
The kind old sun will know.
Think how it wakes the seeds, -.
Woke, once, the clays of a cold star.
Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides,.
Full-nerved - still warm, - too hard to stir?.
Was it for this the clay grew tall?.
- O what made fatuous sunbeams toil .
To break earth's sleep at all?: (Wilfred Owen).
Judging by this poem his prospective on war was 50/50 he hated it, but he didn't despise it, and it was that, that inspired him to write the poems that he did. Owen might have been considered the best poet in English, but when his death came in November 4, 1918, he had only five of his poems released.
In Potsdam on May 6, 1882, Crown Prince Wilhelm the oldest of Kaiser Wilhelm II's five sons was born.