Owen developed many of his poetic techniques at Craig Lockhart Military Hospital, where he spent much of the war as an injured soldier, but it was only through the influence of fellow soldier and poet, Siegfried Sassoon, that he began capturing his experiences of the war in the form of poetry. Many would argue that it was while writing his war poems that Owen felt most able to express his ideas on paper, and he certainly was one of the greatest war poets to have ever lived.

Probably his most famous poem, 'Dulce et Decorum Est', is a fine example of his narrative, first-person poems, written through his own eyes and based on his own experiences and

But these technical formats alone did not make Owen's war poems as believable and empathetic as they actually are. To express his views and notions, he could escape from the frowning public who disagreed with his controversial stance on the war, and put them on paper. And it is perhaps this real hatred towards the war that he felt, and the real belief that he was right, that spurred Owen into some of the most heartfelt poems that he ever wrote. But the personal feel of his poems alone would not create the final result Owen wanted, it is his use of cunning poetic techniques that have made his poems believable and realistic enough for the reader.

'Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,

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