This poet wonders "what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break earth's sleep at all?" in a work beginning "Move him into the sun.
This poet wonders "what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break earth's sleep at all?" in a work beginning "Move him into the sun." The speaker of another of his poems asks, "What candles may be held to speed them all?" before asserting that the "holy glimmers of goodbyes" will shine "not in the hands of boys but in their eyes." This poet of "Futility" described the "shrill, demented choirs of wailing (*) shells" in a sonnet that asks "What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?" In another poem, he wrote of an "ecstasy of fumbling" prompted by a gas attack which left a man "guttering, choking, drowning." For 10 points, name this poet of "Anthem for Doomed Youth" who decried "the old Lie" in "Dulce et Decorum Est" and died in World War I.
This poet wonders "what made fatuous sunbeams toil / To break earth's sleep at all?" in a work beginning "Move him into the sun.
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen