The Pity of War
Latest press releasesOn 4 November 1918 the war poet, Wilfred Owen, aged 25 - a similar age to many of our WBS students - was shot dead, exactly one week before the armistice to end the First World War came into effect. In Owen's prescient poem, 'Strange Meeting', he foresees his own death: his soul descends from the battlefield into the land of the dead and meets the shade of someone he has killed the day before, who turns out also to be a poet. In recording their conversation, Owen effectively writes his own tragic epitaph:
For by my glee, might many men have laughed,
And of my weeping something had been left,
Which must die now. I mean the truth untold,
The pity of war, the pity war distilled.
As we approach Remembrance Day I hope that, when we each pin on our poppy, we think about the dreadful waste that war has brought over the centuries and how our international business school can be a force for better understanding and tolerance among nations.
Mark Taylor, Dean, WBS
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