Deemed as a “compulsive and technical craftsman” (Knowles, 2009), it is no surprise that Wilfred Owen is considered as one

of two English poet giants of war poetry. Despite his short poetic career and even shorter collection of poetic work, he has rightfully
earned the right to be characterized as a leading poet of World War I, alongside his own mentor, Siegfried Sassoon. Therefore,
through tasteful manipulation of the literary techniques allusion, diction, personification, rhyme and satire, Owen effectively
delineates grave themes such as, the romanticism of war, the pity of war and tropes of conspiracy and sacrifice in poems “The Send
Off”, “Futility”, “Disabled”, “Mental Cases” and “Dulce Es Decorum Est”.
British aestheticization of war, intensified by the subsequent use of mass media, is a recurring theme explored by Wilfred
Owen in almost all of his collection of poetry. Various propaganda supported the war, evoked sympathy from the general population
and induced a sense of radical patriotism and nationalism. However, it is worth noting that while as an English tutor in France and
privy to the horrors, he was very much for the idea of Britain entering the war.