World War 1 Poets

After being wounded in April 1917, Sassoon was sent back to England.

The third great poet of World War I was a man named Robert Graves. Sassoon went to college at Marlborough College for a year, he then transferred to Claire College in Cambridge.

Owen had written most of his poetry during times of war and in the hospital bed in England. Graves wrote several poems while waiting to return to the Western Front. Through their wartime experiences, these three men wrote what is considered to be the best war poetry of all time. After experiencing the war first hand, this seemed to be the only thing that was on his mind at this time. On November 4, 1918, only seven days before the end of the war Owen was killed by a German machine gun at the age of 25. Both men had very similar views about the war and how it was fought. "Graves was raised with an unchallenged belief in God, King, and Country. "(Focus on…) At the age of thirteen, Graves was sent to Charterhouse public school. Most of Sassoon’s poems about the war had come after he had been released from the hospital. (Langer) Although the numbers of injured and killed were huge during the war, there was beneficial side effect that the war produced, the poetry of several people from 1914 to 1918.