Significant and emotional events that happen in one’s life often stir powerful feelings which motivate a response which generates poetry. The horrors of the First World War for instance produced not only some of the most brutal conditions of battle and its aftermath but some of the finest poetry and prose ever written by such poets as Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon and Rupert Brooke. Who could not be moved by Brook’s immortal words, ‘If I should die, think only this of me;/ That there’s some corner of a foreign field/ That is for ever England.’
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