Wilfred Owen
/ˌwɪlfrɪd ˈəʊən/
/ˌwɪlfrɪd ˈəʊən/
- (1893-1918) an English poet who fought in the First World War and whose poems are about the horrors of war and the waste of life it causes. He was killed a week before the end of the war, and his poems were published two years later by his friend Siegfried Sassoon. Six of Owen's poems were set to music in Benjamin Britten's War Requiem (1962).
威尔弗雷德·欧文（Wilfred Owen）：（1893-1918）是一位英国诗人，曾在第一次世界大战中作战，其诗作涉及战争的恐怖及其造成的生命浪费。战争结束前一周他被杀，两年后，他的朋友齐格弗里德·沙宣（Siegfried Sassoon）发表了他的诗。欧文的六首诗以本杰明·布里顿（Benjamin Britten）的《战争安魂曲》（War Requiem）（1962年）中的音乐为背景。