"Dulce et Decourum est" is about the life of a solider and the struggles, this embodies the peoples feeling and how this effects them. In the poem "dreamers" this is a complete picture of the agony and how people felt, their opinions of the soldiers. "the second coming" a short poem about giving hope. The poem really describes how Yeates felt about the war. Literature helped people deal with the war by helping people heal and move on into the new world after war.