World War I. Their poems are part of world history and culture. Poets should and must document the destruction and horrors of war. But can poetry ameliorate a war or hasten a peaceful resolution?

Those words graphically bring to life a terrifying gas attack on a British trench during the First World War. They’re from one of the most famous poems of the war, “Dulce et Decorum Est” by ...

so they can relate to Freddie's love of poetry and how it helped him during the war. Below are prompts to guide and direct pupils to ask relevant questions for an enquiry into whether World War ...

POET IN THE NEW WORLD: Poems, 1946-1953, by Czeslaw Milosz ... Milosz left Warsaw shortly before the end of World War II, when almost the entire city lay in ruins, living briefly as a refugee ...