This section provides a range of activities on Wilfred Owen's poetry, from background information on the First World War to detailed exploration of individual poems. Most units are highly interactive, drawing students into the close reading of the text that is so prized by examiners. The activities are suitable for use in groups and by individual work by students in their own time.

Introduction and Technical Information

Poems	Activities and Information
Strange Meeting Hypertext	Historical context
The Chances	Literary Context
Mental Cases	Tutorial on The Chances
Exposure	Alliteration in Mental Cases
Anthem for Doomed Youth	The Structure of Exposure
Asleep	Drafting Anthem for Doomed Youth
Inspection	Tone in Asleep
The Sentry	Writing a response to Inspection
	Annotating The Sentry