The War Poets

I'm not exactly sure if I'm doing this, or posting this, in the right place- but I'll give it a shot!

In my previous class with Dr. Johnson we studied the war poets a bit and watched a few war videos. The video that stuck out in my mind the most was the one discussing shell shock. I was so interested in the subject that I wrote one of my semester papers on the awfulness of it all. I feel because of this paper I am able to relate more to the horrors of WWI and therefore connect with the War poetry better.

I don’t have a favorite War Poet out of the group. From each there are poems I enjoy, and poems I could live without (sometimes I only like key lines in a poem as well).

In Siegfried Sassoon’s poem “The Rear-Guard” I really enjoy line 7 which says: The rosy gloom of battle overhead. This is an interesting line for me. When I read “rosy gloom” it immediately conjures up a vision of blood everywhere- which of course is gloomy.