War Poets

War poetry is not that interesting to me but it should be appreciated. I enoyed how honest their poems were. The emotions they felt were real and the gory things they saw were very true. Like I mentioned in class, my favorite poem was by Ivor Gurney "To His Love". It brought out a lot of my own personal emotions. As we talked about other poems in class it helped me get a better understanding on what they were about. I did like the poem "Blighters" by Sassoon. It was depressing but it helps the reader to understand why a solider may have felt the way he did. After discussing "The General" it had me wondering if this really happened, did generals in this war act this way? I also really liked that we got to compare a poem that was written by someone who was never in a War; there were BIG differences in them. It shows how much the outsiders really know compared to what the soliders actually feel and go through!

Although war poetry is not that interesting to me I do appreciate it and reading the background on these war poets really helped me understand them better. I think we need poems like this so we can understand better what a solider may go through instead of being told a different truth.