This is a study of the Eighth Army war poetry. It tackles the themes on which the poets of this fighting force wrote. These themes are the pity of war, the old concepts of chivalry, the destruction of war, the exotic scenes and the landscape of exile, nostalgia, Lack of faith, the fear of death, love, comradeship in arms, and the emblematic use of nature. The attitudes of the Eighth Army poets towards war and how it affected them are revealed while handling these themes. It is argued that to the poets of the Eighth Army, as typical representatives of the soldier poetry of World War II, is...