Some of the most beautiful poetry ever written has come from the horror of the trenches. Represented in this text are poems dashed off in the full awfulness of the battlefield, as well as those honed with the terrible benefit of hindsight.
" Even after the Great War ended the memory of Seeger and his poem did not die, with literary allusions to his work and his "rendezvous with death" making their way into the works of such writers as F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
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