Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, "Futility" by Wilfred Owen, 2011 - 2012.

• Physical description

  Dimensions

  Attribute	Value
  Height	280mm
  Width	610mm

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	Futility
  Text	Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields half - sown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The knid old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds - Woke once the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear - achieved, are sides Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? - O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all? Wilfred Owen (1893 - 1918) Poems on the Underground Mayor of London Arts Council England Supported by Arts Council England The Poetry Society British Council Poetry Book Society Poetry Library The Saison Poetry Library housing the Arts Council Poetry Collection at Southbank Centre tfl.gov.uk/poems Transport for London

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Artist	, 2011 - 2012
  Commissioner	Poems on the Underground, 2011 - 2012
  Poet	Wilfred Owen,
  Publisher	TfL, 2011 - 2012