are there any famous poems about how soldiers at war deal with death. I'm reading "the things they carried" and the book talks a lot about how the soldiers would shake hands with dead people, (as a sort of dark humor I guess to desensitize them in a way) or how when curt lemon dies, jensen sings "lemon tree" to death with the death in a form of dark humor. Are there any poems that have similar ideas such as these about war and death?

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Here are webpages/websites about two famous British poets who lived during WWI.

Wilfred Owen
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/collections/owen

Siegfred Sassoon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Sassoon
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