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on Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen, on November 28, 2006
In a sense it could be seen that this is of similarity to WB Yeats' 'On being asked for a war poem'

Ouch, Ouch and double Ouch. I will never yeats and Owen in the same catagory. As Yeats refused to include Owen in his anthology of War poems, since Owen's poetry protested the war. Yeats felt it was not the poets place to judge, he felt this was unproductive and unpatriotic.
on Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen, on November 8, 2005
Owen has to be the best poet of the first world war. I started collecting WWI poetry after reading his Dulce Et Decorum. I am always particulary touched by his sympathy for the soldiers, he does not dwell on his misery, but that of those around him. His dying on the finale day of the war was a bitter irony, as he protested the death of so many for what was truly a war without justification beyond politics and a European social order that the eroded after the war anyway.
on Jazzonia by Langston Hughes, on October 28, 2005
I LOVE Hughes he wrote such musical poetry. Vivid and alive. Thanks for this!