Good day ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Bilinga Youth Literacy Festival, today I will be talking about two of the greatest poems about war, by two of the greatest war poets, Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. First I would like to talk a bit about the backgrounds of the two poets so that when I'm finished you may decide whether this poetry is still relevant to modern youth. The first poet I would …showed first 75 words of 1027 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1027 total…true. And of course the average Englishman will hate it" - shaping a distance between the 'averages' and 'those who know better'. Today the Officer in the poem would be described as a decent man although he did lie to jacks mother; he did it to make her happy and proud of her son. I believe the poem would be accepted more easily today than it was back in 1917 when the poem was first printed.