In his draft preface, Wilfred Owen includes his well-known statement 'My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the Pity'. All of his important poems were written in just over a year, and Dulce et Decorum Est, S.I.W., Futility and Anthem for Doomed Youth still have an astonishing power to move the reader. Owen pointed out that 'AII a poet can do today is to warn. That is why all true poets must be truthful'. His warning was based o...