At the time, he was just another soldier poet writing about the war. So why, after all these years, do we see Wilfred Owen’s poetry as a defining image of World War One? A select group of well ...

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Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention ... visiting his family and going over proofs of Drum-Taps, poems inspired by the war, when Lincoln was assassinated.

The poem is about the endless marching the British infantry did while colonizing parts of Africa. Soldiers would march ... Since the war was still on, they couldn't take leave or as Kipling ...

The titles of these First World War poems alone tell a tale of despair and hopelessness. Yet despite the brutality of the Great War, soldiers were able to endure a drawn-out conflict. How did they ...

We often associate war poetry with the First World War's soldier poets, but women have also written war poetry, notably from ...