This paper discusses how the medium of
poetry is especially suited for communicating the nuance of the "inner struggle" with
war and the sufferings of those required to participate in it. It looks at how the three poets, Siegfried Sassoon, Robert Graves, and Wilfred Owen, are excellent examples of writer/
soldiers who express their psychological
struggles with war in their poetry, in their cases, the first World War, and how these struggles gain an even greater impact when fictionalized into novel form in Pat Barker's "Regeneration".