he families that have been described in this poem. Owen attempts to connect the war with other aspects of human suffering. He makes images and actions recognisable, even to those who have never experience war.Owen shows us the physical horrors of war very effectively yet his poems stretch beyond that and delves into the unspoken feelings and emotions of those who are effected by the war indirectly. He tries to bring the horrors of war to the reader in the last verse of each poem. Simply, in war there is the horror and there is the pity. Owen offers the reader so much more insight into the horrors of war by showing the pity. With this the reader empathises with the speaker and therefore becomes more involved. Owen’s poetry questions so much more than the visual atrocities that enable his poems to have an effect on people today. As Wilfred Owen said ‘My topic is war and the pity of war, the poetry is in the pity’....
