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''Wilfred Owen''  
 
''Wilfred Owen''  
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Owen was a poet contemporary to Eliot, also writing WWI thematic poetry such as his poem "Futility", which speaks of the war dead and futile attempts to wake them from their final slumber, as well as representing the destructive effects the war had on the land. ''The Waste Land'' has a continuous theme of futility and desolation in Europe following the war
 
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Gently its touch awoke him once,
 
Gently its touch awoke him once,
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To break earth's sleep at all?"
 
To break earth's sleep at all?"
  
 
Owen was a poet contemporary to Eliot, also writing WWI thematic poetry such as his poem "Futility", which speaks of the war dead and futile attempts to wake them from their final slumber, as well as representing the destructive effects the war had on the land.  ''The Waste Land'' has a continuous theme of futility and desolation in Europe following the war
 
  
 
'''Other Authors'''
 
'''Other Authors'''

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