Wilfred Owen is indeed one of the best-known war poets of the first world war.
[He was born in 1893 in England, volunteered for the British army in 1915 in what he believed was an act of patriotism only to realize that he was wrong via a bitter experience of the trenches. The bloodiest and traumatic actions for him occurred on the Western Front especially focusing the Somme.

Suffering from the trauma of such impressions, Owen was a severe shell-shock victim admitted to a military hospital in 1917 and met there Siegfried Sassoon. Sassoon did the same to Owen who provoked him to bring out the truth behind the actual wars. The author of the works nearly highlighted in this paper, including the widely celebrated poem *Dulce et Decorum Est*, critiques war and its glorification, especially death for country.

Owen’s line “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori’ from Horace ‘It is sweet and honourable to die for your country’ However, he referred to this as “the old lie which is all in favour of the patriotic pro­pa­ganda, which mis­guides inno­cent young sol­diers to enlist.” This testimony bears out his exposure to death, pain and the irrelevance of warfare as given thorough consideration his belief on the use of lethal force on people during war.

Unfortunately Owen himself died in combat on November 4, 1918, one week before the signing of the Armistice. His poetry is still among the most striking examples of how much human cost a war can claim.