The Last Laugh
NOTES: POL Participants: several changes to punctuation have been changed, and the line "And the falling splinters tittered" was changed to "And the splinters spat, and tittered", in June 2014.
Source: The Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by Jon Stallworthy (W. W. Norton and Company, Inc., 1986)
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Poet Wilfred Owen 1893–1918
POET’S REGION England
SCHOOL / PERIOD Georgian