It’s not the role of English to give a wider and balanced picture of the war, although OCR have set poems that offer different responses to the war. WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives?

Siegfried Sassoon’s protesting voice had been silenced, but his poetry remained clear and forceful. In 1918 he wrote, “You smug faced crowds with kindling eye, who cheer when soldier lads ...

Staff and patients in 1917 posing in front of Craiglockhart hospital which was set up to treat shell-shocked soldiers in WW1 The horrors ... to delve into their poetry and reflect on their lives.