From World War I to contemporary poems

The First World War, originally called the Great War, raged from 1914 to 1918. Mostly fought in western Europe in muddy, bloody trenches, World War I saw the introduction of the machine gun and poison gas into battle. Great Britain and France was the most powerful country. Sadly happened to kill unintended victims.

Poets in the period:

1. Jesse Pope
2. Julian Grenfell
3. Owen Seaman
4. Wilfred Owen
5. Isaac Rosenberg
6. Siegfried Sassoon

--> Most of the poems talk about death, suffering faced by the army, hopeless, patriotism, humanity approach, and also sense of religion.

http://history.hanover.edu/courses/excerpts/111ww1.html

http://history1900s.about.com/od/worldwari/World_War_I.htm