Owen and Hardy- poems

<Tab/>In "Channel Firing" by T. Hardy and "Miners" by W. Owens both poets are conveying that they see war in a negative light, but they are showing us from different perspectives. Thomas Hardy is more unique than Owen in his style of writing, he wrote about idealistic views, but he never actually went to war, he never had the first hand knowledge, his poetry was speculation and imagination. Owens on …

…that Owen himself will dream of them, Owen with his phobia and his past experiences to prompt him, whether the ground they are left in be a coalfield in Staffordshire or a battlefield on the Western Front. Owen has seen the war not only through his own eyes, but through those of the patients he encountered at the hospital. Men who had seen such horror as to alter the balance of their minds for ever.