Many think there is an element of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder going on in this poem. Soldiers were indeed stress-tested until destruction. Robert Nichols said once, comparing before- and after-war poetry, “War has defiled one to produce the other.”
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Many think there is an element of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder going on in this poem. Soldiers were indeed stress-tested until destruction. Robert Nichols said once, comparing before- and after-war poetry, “War has defiled one to produce the other.”