'À Terre.'.
- Resource Type
- Poetry Review
- Authors
- Jackson, Clare
- Source
- English Review; Nov2011, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p10-13, 4p
- Subject
- POETRY (Literary form)
LITERARY criticism
CRITICISM
POETRY explication
- Language
- ISSN
- 09558950
The article offers criticism of the poem "À Terre," by Wilfred Owen. It claims that the poem was written by Owen to discuss suffering, particularly on the life of a soldier. According to critic Douglas Kerr, the poem is a hopeless hymn to the inevitability of death. It claims that Owen rejected any kind of sentimentality or rhetoric in the poem as seen in his frequent use of colloquialism.