A poem for today
IT’S a sad day when poet Wilfred Owen is dropped from GCSEs to make way for more inclusive writers.
He fought and died in World War I, writing Anthem For Doomed Youth and asking: ‘What passingbells for these who die as cattle? — Only the monstrous anger of the guns’.
An apt anthem today, not for our snowflake generation but for Ukrainian men who are dying for their country.