How did you manipulate what you knew about it? Can you interpret 'beauty' to mean something great that you wouldn't expect in way like the love soldiers have for one another like in futility or writing to the parents in SIW? There is another poem called beauty where he just recalls shit like men never knowing beauty whilst women would obsess over beauty in the mirror, and the ironic use of the word 'beauty' for men came when they said like 'oh what a beauty, lad.' I haven't memorised the quotes yet I do that tomorrow. I would have so little to write regardless.
Tomorrow I need to find poems where Owen condemns those advertising the war. Would you please be able to tell me some? I honestly have zero beyond like Owen's vehement condemning of 'the old lie.' I wouldn't have anything substantial to write on for a single paragraph, let alone an essay. I have to do this tomorrow but if you could pleaseeee tell me some poems I'd be forever in your debt 
ok so the first paragraph i talked about how owen uses the horrifying brutal imagery and stuff to evoke shock and thus expose war to the criticism of reason - basically here i was using an adapted form of some stuff i'd written on physical and mental horrors of war
the second paragraph was about how he exalts the beauty that persists despite war's attempts to destroy it - basically i talked a lot about nature stuff here, stuff like how futility shows his appreciation for the human form
paragraph three was about how he creates a synthesis between beauty and horror and sort of subverts our ideas of them by showing the horror that exists within beauty during warfare, and vice versa. i had to write this one mostly from scratch i think, but it was all based off stuff i'd written in my notes.
and the last paragraph was about how there's a marked chronological development in owen's poetry from romanticised depictions to brutal realism as he grows even more disillusioned with the war efforts, and his view of beauty is tarnished by war. that one i hadn't written before but the idea seemed to work well with the prompt so i tried it out.
(i hope i worded this better in the essay but yeah you get the idea haha)
yeah i think you could definitely interpret the camaraderie between soldiers as beauty - spring offensive is another good one for that as they're shown resting on each other's chests. i haven't studied the poem beauty but sounds like it could be a handy one to have ready - it also discusses the role of women in owen's poetry, which you might find yourself writing a paragraph on (although vcaa would never make us write a whole essay on that, thank god).
um in terms of condemning those who propagate war - when it comes to world leaders, there's dulce et decorum est (of course haha), parable of the old man and the young ("then abram bound the youth with belts and straps"), mental cases ("snatching after us who smote them, brother/pawing us who dealt them war and madness"), strange meeting ("men will go content with what we spoiled/or discontent, boil bloody, and be spilled"). he also condemns families and the public for propagating those quixotic views of war in s.i.w, and (to an extent) disabled and anthem for doomed youth.
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