the horrors of the conflict was a task that many of the soldier-poets ultimately failed. This was partly because they were, temperamentally, English pastoralists who clung to familiar blank verse and ballad meter in an attempt to salvage a remnant of their bucolic idylls. Edmund Blunden's description of the village of Brielen as "the usual free-verse fandango of brick moulds and water-holes" is telling because, although he dismisses vers libre as an elaborate mess, he unwittingly admits that such destruction may be best captured in less formal verse.from New Statesman: Troubadours of the trenches
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