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set gName = getat(["Owen"],1)
@[]###THE ENGLISH DEAD#SNUFFING THE CANDLES#THE POETRY OF A JUST WAR
Owen was one of a small constellation of fine poets who emerged in the first world war. Among the others were Siegfried Sassoon, Edmund Blunden and Robert Graves (who survived), and Rupert Brooke (who was killed)#One of Owen's most haunting poems is Strange Meeting, which describes an encounter in hell between the poet and a German soldier he has killed. It ends abruptly (it is perhaps unfinished) with the words "let us sleep now"#The poet W B Yeats did not like Owen's verse, which he described as "all, blood, dirt, and sucked sugarstick"#Britain sustained nearly a million dead in the First World War, and over two million wounded; Germany had over two million dead and four million wounded. The greater part of a generation was sacrificed
