Question

what is war poetry?
Discuss two war poets.​

Answer 1

⌘ Poets have written about the experience of war since the Greeks, but the young soldier poets of the First World War established war poetry as a literary genre.

Answer 2

• War poetry is a literary genre originated during war time when hundreds of soldiers, and also civilians caught up in conflict, started to write poetry as a way of striving to express extreme emotion at the very edge of experience.