<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> Wikisource has several original texts related to: World War I poetry </Td> </Tr> <P> Published poets wrote over two thousand poems about and during the war . However, only a small fraction is still known today, while several poets that were popular with contemporary readers are now obscure . An orthodox selection of poets and poems emerged during the 1960s, which often remains the standard in modern collections and distorts the impression of World War I poetry . This selection tends to emphasise the horror of war, suffering, tragedy and anger against those that wage war . </P> <P> In the early weeks of the war, British poets responded with an outpouring of literary production . Rudyard Kipling's For all we have and are was syndicated extensively by newspapers in English speaking countries . Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate, contributed a poem Wake Up, England! at the outbreak of war that he later wished suppressed., John Masefield, who later succeeded Bridges as Poet Laureate, wrote August, 1914, a poem that was widely admired . </P> <P> Wilfred Owen was killed in battle; but his poems created at the front did achieve popular attention after the war's end,. e.g., Dulce Et Decorum Est, Insensibility, Anthem for Doomed Youth, Futility and Strange Meeting . In preparing for the publication of his collected poems, Owen tried to explain: </P>

Who wrote about their experiences in the first world war