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The poet, Katherine Mansfield, was a woman who lived in the midst of World War I. She wanted to write poems that would be true to life and not just about how pretty things looked. She made an important statement when she said, “I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting to those who want the war to go on forever. Feeble, inarticulate will be my message but it will have a bitter truth and may it burn their lousy souls.”
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