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  • Passive suffering and pity are not the same thing. Owen was a serving soldier and his experiences inform his poetry, see `Dulce et decorum est`. Owen used his poetry to highlight the hypocrisy and pointlessness of war as well as it`s horror and are a howl of fury. Passive suffering as I understand Yeats to mean is fatalistic acceptance of these things.
  • WB Yeats is wrong. Anyone who attempts to limit what an artist can express is wrong.
  • Philip Larkin offered an answer: Myxomatosis Caught in the center of a soundless field While hot inexplicable hours go by What trap is this? Where were its teeth concealed? You seem to ask. I make a sharp reply, Then clean my stick. I'm glad I can't explain Just in what jaws you were to suppurate: You may have thought things would come right again If you could only keep quite still and wait.

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