jcampbell's review against another edition
emotional
medium-paced
4.0
Excellent collection of Wilfred Owen’s poems which highlight and describe the horrors of WW1
cono44's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
5.0
'If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.'
Oh man. Oh man oh man oh man.
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues, -
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.'
Oh man. Oh man oh man oh man.
re3bbca's review against another edition
challenging
dark
informative
reflective
slow-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: War, Death, and Violence
regitzexenia's review against another edition
4.0
"S.I.W." especially broke my heart, but the thing about WWI poetry is that it is beautiful in it's harsh tragedy as Owen writes about young men greeting Death as more of a friend than Life, of the futility of their war and everything that surrounds a real, historic period that imo gets too overlooked. This was almost everything I wanted it to and I can't decide if that is a good or a bad thing.
brisingr's review against another edition
3.0
A great, moving collection of poetry about the horrors of war, as seen by a soldier who fought in the first lines. Enjoyed the constant presence of death, even in stories about sweethearts left behind, and how it does not sugarcoat the effect, both physical and mental, of the war.