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Written in 1916 when Owen was a patient at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh recovering from shell shock. The poem is a lament for young soldiers whose lives were lost in World War I.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfNo6WVt-uc&list=PLEC86E3D1A9DDC1E0#t=29

Kenneth Branagh
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