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The apprenticeship of Wilfred owenOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Wilfred Owen’s life and writings represent a polemical dilemma for
his critics. He is that kind of artist whose life, death and work are so closely
interfused. To reach a satisfying appreciation of his poetry without
dwelling into a deeper investigation and a comprehensive understanding of
his developing self seems quite inappropriate. His genuine personal
experiences result in a parallel development in his poetic cultivation that
passes through four distinctive phases. His early Keatsian phase is
characterized by an instinctive tendency and a sincere devotion to the
Beautiful. The Shelleyian phase of Owen’s developing self is marked by its
revolutionary spirit , and constitutes a crucial turning point in the
development of his intellectual stature. It marks his departure from the selfcentred
ego to an assimilation of the suffering of the Other. The transitional
third phase of Owen’s process of individuation bears some obvious traces
of a veering attitude towards Pantheism in the Wordsworthian fashion. The
final phase of Owen’s developing self witnesses a drastic conversion from
his earlier romantic ideal of Beauty and the existance of the Divine to the
distortion of its archetypal image. His First World War experience Led him
to a new realization of truth that necessitates his choice to communicate the
ugly truthfully and to stop conveying the truth beautifully.