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Wilfred Owen’s ‘À Terre’

In this second article on Wilfred Owen, Clare Jackson considers ‘À Terre’ as an implied dialogue, underlining Owen’s manipulation of the reader in the service of the poem’s unsentimental delineation of the realities of trench warfare

First World War trenches
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War literature: AQA (A) Literature; Edexcel Literature; OCR Literature; WJEC

(being the philosophy of many soldiers)

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