A Contrast of War Poetry

War poetry is a relatively new classification in the world of poetry. Stephen Crane and Wilfred Owen are two poets that have seen war first hand and have written many graphic and in-depth poems on war. The similarities in the war poetry of Stephen Crane and Wilfred Owen seem relatively minor when compared to the striking differences in imagery, symbolism and impressionism.

Stephen Crane was born on November 1, 1871 in Newark, New Jersey. He later moves to New York and attends school for the first time. Crane’s father dies and his mother moves back to New Jersey, where she dies eleven years later. Crane attends Syracuse University in New York for a year, then travels to Mexico where he publishes “The Black Riders”, his first war poem. Later Crane becomes shipwrecked off the coast of Florida, which is the basis for a future book, and meets Cora Taylor, proprietress of a house of prostitution, along the way. Together they go to cover the story on the

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