Essay On Wilfred Owen's Poetry

Rationale:
This written task aims to critically analyze Wilfred Owen’s poems and the context of his poems. It is based on one of his most famous poems, ‘Insensibility’ which was written in 1918. This poem is about the fate of the soldiers who fought in the war and about how it affects them on a psychological level. It is also about how soldiers deal with it. Therefore, in order to gain insights into the mind of a World War 1 soldier, the text type of my written task will be a diary entry.
The written task will be diary entries written by a surviving World War 1 soldier. Therefore, it will be set in the time period immediately after the war in November 1918. It will consist of four diary entries which will reflect the mindset of the soldier.

I received the Victoria Cross award from the British military a few days ago.
It means so much to my parents and everyone else. Today at the dinner, my mother spoke about this so proudly to everyone. She even got emotional and claimed with so much joy that “Its such an honor!” Everybody clapped. But this award means nothing but pain to me. I had to kill many men for this, men who were just as terrified as me in the war.
Those men had families as well. But nobody cared. All they cared about was the honor. Its much like the way I thought before war. That’s the reason why I even went for war. I wanted to contribute. I believed that dying and killing for one’s country was an honor. But I was wrong.
I had to take the lives of so many men who had their whole lives ahead of them. This was to protect my comrades who would eventually get killed in battle. All this is just utterly irrational yet it is celebrated.
Then my mother prayed and thanked god for my return. She didn’t even pray for all the other men who died in war, or those who came back damaged. All that mattered was my return. That’s when I realized that people don’t really care about the young men who lose their lives for