During wars, the time was brutal which left unforgetable memories and also made a big effect in poetry. People started writing more and telling their stories and how they felt about the war. Most people show the brutality and tragedy of it in their poem.
The wirers is Its a simple poem about the dangerous job of repairing the barbed wire in front of the trenches during World War I. This had to be done at night otherwise the wirers would be shot. Occasionally the enemy (Germans in this case) would fire up a flare to illuminate No Mans Land, the land between the allied and German trenches. That's how poor Hughes was caught out in the poem. The best thing to do to avoid detection in poor light is to stand absolutely still - the eye is designed to detect movement. At the end he writes "no doubt he’ll die to-day. But we can say the front-line wire’s been safely mended."this shows that he is sarcastically saying that ;well at leats the wire is up, eventhough he died.
In the wind of downs The writer uses imagery and lots if repetitions to tell us the poem.
The big idea of the poem is that the girl can't see his face but only his khaki uniform.She doesn't think he is dead and she can't remember him, that's what the first stanza is about. "brown and tall, "strong and living" these are all metaphors describeing him.
The idea of the second stanza is about that she doesn't want to belive that he is dead amd she is waiting for him to come back while she is doing things they used to do to get.
Arms of the boy is powerfully telling us about soldiers in the world war one. The big idea is that the war is unnatural which is told through metaphors and imagery.The first paragraph is about the secretion of the gun which is followed by the 2nd stanza which describes the cartridges and bullets and the third stanza is about that people are not designed to kill. One example of metaphor is when it says "how cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood." this metaphor is telling us about the bayonet-blade and one example for imagery is "there lurk no claws behind his fingers supple; and God will grow no talons at his heels, nor anthlers through the thickness of his curls" This tells us anout the boy and how people are not supposed to be killed.
"Passing through this gate"
Sassooon uses metaphors'listing and repatition to tell us the big idea of this poem which is that people won't remember the soldiers whise bodies weren't found.
"Who will remember passing through this gate, the unheraoic dead who fed rhe guns?" This sentence shows that the writer asks himself who will remember the soldiers who fought in the war and were heroicly fighting for our country. "Their names liveth for ever" This shows the writer wants their names to be remembered forever. He uses metaphors like sullen swamps and 'dead who struggeled in the slime'
Overall there were lots of poems wrotten about WW1 which are very powerfull and describe the whole war.
