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Poetry is an art form and therefore must do something that all art does - represent something in the world, express or evoke emotion, please us by its form, and stand on its own as something autonomous and self-defining. Wordsworth described it as "emotion recollected as tranquillity" and "the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings" and there is no area of human experience that has created a wider range of powerful feelings than that of War: hope, fear, exhilaration and humiliation but to name a few. There are many poems that back War patriotically; they support it, and they impose it upon the younger generation, Winston Churchill said, "Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre. The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter." However there are others that are completely against the bloodshed; people like John Scott who composed the poem The...

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