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Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

Tags: futility, grief, judgement, war

Child by Sylvia Plath

Tags: family, futility, yearning

Drummer Hodge by Thomas Hardy

Tags: futility, judgement, war

Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

Tags: futility, grief, war

Futility by Wilfred Owen

Tags: futility, grief, war

Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath

Tags: conflict, futility, grief

London by William Blake

Tags: futility, loneliness

Paradise Lost, Book I (extract) by John Milton

Tags: faith, futility, loss

Slough by John Betjeman

Tags: futility, humour

Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen

Tags: farewells, futility, relationships, war

Toads by Philip Larkin

Tags: futility, work

The Waste Land (extract) by TS Eliot

Tags: futility, loneliness

Zoom! by Simon Armitage

Tags: farewells, futility

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