WWI Poetry. Does anything stand out to you?

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Corey

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I was looking through a ton of WW1 poetry and some of it looks relatively accesible while other poetry isn't so easy to understand on the surface. I'm looking for a poem - I really want it to mean something because I really want to capture the time.

[note: I would write it myself, but that's not what I have to do]

I'm looking for something good now, but I was wondering could you help at all with my search? Do you feel that there's any particular special poems out there that not many people might see?

Thanks if you can give me an answer!
 
does it have to be about WW1? i was just looking at poems for my english GCSE and ive found a poem by Thomas Hardy called "The man he killed" which i think really shows how pointless war can be. Its actually written before WW1 but i think it could be about any war.

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.

I shot him dead because--
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although

He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like--just as I--
Was out of work--had sold his traps--
No other reason why.

Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.
 
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