Personally, i think it is beautiful. The small good that came from such a vicious and destructive event.

>>8237093
Most of it is simple and quite forgettable, but poignant at the same time. I have the Penguin Anthology of First World War Poetry and I have probably read through it two or three times.

>>8237093
Love it
Sassoon; the general, counter attack, syicide in the trenches and his prose works memoirs of a fox hunting man and diary of an infantry officer
Owen: a terre, the last laugh
Frankau: voices of the guns
Graves; goodbye to all that

>>8237132

Ever read Hodgson?

http://www.greatwar.co.uk/poems/william-noel-hodgson-before-action.htm