His upbringing was humble: he was born in Shropshire, was a devout Christian on account of the strong relationship he had with his mother, and in his early adulthood worked as a lay assistant to a priest in the south of England. Wilfred Owen is perhaps the most renowned poets of the British First World War. Lancashire, Leicestershire, Bedfordshire Shires – regions of England often end with ‘shire’ and can be referred to as ‘the shires’ e.g. Patter out – in this context it means to speak quickly īugles – a horn instrument sounded at at military funerals Passing-bells – when a church would announce someone’s death by ringing their bells Furthermore, on the home front there are no ceremonies, candles nor acts of commemoration to bid them goodbye but solemn faces of boys and girls and those who silently think of them with ‘patient minds’ as they grieve these lives lost too soon. As these soldiers die all that surrounds them are the sounds of warfare, far from any semblance of an orderly funeral service with prayers, choirs and bugles announcing their deaths. He bemoans that the soldiers who die or are dying are senselessly slaughtered like ‘cattle’ and that, in the heat of battle, they are not given the kind of funeral and send off that they deserve. The poem has a very telling title, which reflects the speaker’s anger and mourning for the deaths of young soldiers sent to battle during the First World War.
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