At the commencement of the war, there was a rush on the part of young men in Europe to enlist in the armed forces. Many of these new recruits were talented, educated men and when exposed to the harsh reality of warfare, they naturally engaged in writing verse about the heightened emotion of those times what was known as war verse' (Swinnerton 249). ... Thus, snow which is of course white, seems to color the air black and is conveyed as hostile- attacking in shivering ranks of grey' and even something as ordinary as the wind tugging on the wire surrounding the trench is given a maca...

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