George Walter
Author of The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry (Penguin Classics)
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry differs in several other aspects. First of all, it is an anthology with poems spanning the whole period of the year(s) leading up to the fighting, describing the months before going to the front, recruitment and preparation, and the aftermath. There is even a poem entotled "To a Conscript of 1940".
This anothology also includes the poetry of many women who often served different roles during the war, offereing a different perspective, not less horrible.
Much of the poetry is terrifying, creating strong images of the horrors of that war. Many of the poets also looked for moments of beauty, perhaps for consolation, but on the whole most poems convey the slaughter and the infernal horror of the war in the trenches.
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