Wilfred Owen
/ˌwɪlfrɪd ˈəʊən/
/ˌwɪlfrɪd ˈəʊən/
- (1893-1918) an English poet who fought in the First World War and whose poems are about the horrors of war and the waste of life it causes. He was killed a week before the end of the war, and his poems were published two years later by his friend Siegfried Sassoon. Six of Owen's poems were set to music in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem (1962). “I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.”
（1893-1918）一位参加过第一次世界大战的英国诗人，他的诗歌讲述了战争的恐怖和战争造成的生命浪费。他在战争结束前一周被杀，两年后他的朋友齐格弗里德·沙逊出版了他的诗。欧文的六首诗被本杰明·布里顿的《战争安魂曲》（1962）配乐。 “我不关心诗歌。我的主题是战争和战争的怜悯。诗歌存在于怜悯之中。” 威尔弗雷德·欧文