Arms and the Boy Arms and the Boy "Arms and the Boy" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. Like Owen's other famous poems, it deals with the atrocities of World War I; in it, he portrays the loss of innocence of a child in the midst of war. Thousands like the boy are drawn into the battlefield, to the tormenting visitations of war. <poem>"Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood"</poem> It seems a wonder that a boy familiar with sticks and stones holds bayonets in the same hands and learns the coldness of death.
Grace Taylor (poet) Grace Taylor (poet) Grace Teuila Evelyn Taylor (born c.1984) is a New Zealand poet and performer. Taylor is of English and Samoan heritage. She was born in about 1984 in South Auckland and refers to herself as "Afakasi" which is a 1930s Samoan word for someone of mixed heritage. She has an MA in Youth Development from Auckland University of Technology. In 2013 Taylor published her first collection of poetry, "Afakasi Speaks." She has been published in literary journals including "Hawai'i Review". Taylor wrote and performed the play "My Own Darling", which has been performed in South Auckland and broadcast