SPRING OFFENSIVE (Wilfred Owen) Wilfred Owens poem ‘Spring Offensive’ explores the unnatural offensive of war against spring or nature. Opening with ‘Halted against the shade of the last hill’ Owen suggests both the calmness of the ‘shade’ and the deadly implication of ‘last.’ Written in a conversational tone, Spring Offensive illustrates the physical horrors that the men experienced in war as they ‘leapt to swift unseen bullets…. Or plunged and fell away past the world …showed first 75 words of 320 total…

…showed last 75 words of 320 total…images of horror. He conjures feelings within the reader that are more horrific. The significance of Spring Offensive once thought out properly comes out loud and clear. This poem can relate to anyone who has questioned the meaning of life or death. Owens poetry questions so much more than the visual atrocities which enable his poems to be relevant today. It is a beautifully written poem, one that will surely live on throughout the ages.