Some say teachers should, like soldiers, should put their lives on the line. This A.E. Housman poem brings up the question of whether even soldiers should do so when there sacrifice will be meaningless.
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Wanted: Teachers, Not Martyrs
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Poetry Changed during World War I
The horrors of World War I created some great poetry. But not in its early days.
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