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.
The Devil and His Boy the book was mostly positive, with the book gaining reviews from the Horn Book Guide and the School Library Journal. Booklist also gave a positive review, praising Horowitz's attempts to ground the more fictional elements of the story in historical fact. A reviewer for Kliatt wrote that the book "rollicking, often fanciful fun ...despite the inclusion of some rather gory details". The Devil and His Boy The Devil and His Boy is a 1998 young adult novel by Anthony Horowitz. The book is set in Tudor times and follows the adventures of a young boy as he meets several influential