Poetry as a Response to Conflict and Trauma: The Poems of Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, and Edward Thomas

People have used poetry as a means to understand and express their feelings. Feedback to the misery, hardship and confusion linked to war has always been an important use of poetry; it has helped many cope with what they experience. Many poems were written during the First World War by poets who wanted to express the suffering of soldiers. Among the poets of the time, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke and Edward Thomas are especially noteworthy. All these writers discussed the war in personal ways, highlighting themental and physical damage it had caused