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.
Fiona Benson (poet) Fiona Benson (poet) Fiona Benson (born 1978) is an English poet. She has one full poetry collection, "Bright Travellers", which has won numerous awards including being on the shortlist for the prestigious T.S. Eliot Prize in 2015. She has an upcoming poetry collection, "Vertigo and Ghost", due out in 2019. Benson was born in Wroughton, England. She received her Master of Letters and PhD in English from Saint Andrew’s University, Scotland, where she wrote her dissertation on the Ophelia figure in Early Modern Drama. She is resident in Thorverton, Devon. Benson was a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award in