War Poems

As I said in a post below, I am looking at WW1 and WW2 for stories which could make a very unique animation. For the moment I have moved slightly away from war stories and onto war poems. I found a website or a number of websites of poets and others who have made poems for certain things to do with the war.

Below this text is a short poem I read whilst looking at the website(http://www.love-poems.me.uk/a_war_poems_index.htm), The poem which I'm using as an example is about two men facing each other in battle, and what the circumstances of them meeting would be like if it wasn't during battle.

The Man he Killed a poem by Thomas Hardy

Had he and I but met
By some old ancient inn,
We should have set us down to wet
Right many a nipperkin!

But ranged as infantry,
And staring face to face,
I shot at him as he at me,
And killed him in his place.

I shot him dead because-
Because he was my foe,
Just so: my foe of course he was;
That's clear enough; although

He thought he'd 'list, perhaps,
Off-hand like-just as I-
Was out of work-had sold his traps-
No other reason why.

Yes; quaint and curious war is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat, if met where any bar is,
Or help to half a crown.

The Man he Killed
Thomas Hardy