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Okay so i have to write a poem for world history and I am really bad with writing. Its about world war 1 and 2. can someone please help me out! 17 points and brainley answer if someone can help me.

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During the Great War, poetry played a more significant role in the war effort

than articles and pamphlets. A campaign of extraordinary language filled with

abstract and spiritualized words and phrases concealed the realities of the War.

Archaic language and lofty phrases hid the horrible truth of modern mechanical

warfare. The majority and most recognized and admired poets, including those

who served on the front and knew firsthand the horrors of trench warfare, not

only supported the war effort, but also encouraged its continuation. For the

majority of the poets, the rejection of the war was a postwar phenomenon. From

the trenches, leading Great War poets; Owen, Sassoon, Graves, Sitwell, and

others, learned that the War was neither Agincourt, nor the playing fields of

ancient public schools, nor the supreme test of valor but, instead, the modern

industrial world in miniature, surely, the modern world at its most horrifying

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