I know /lit/ is not my personal army, but can anyone give some

Dunno if it's what you're looking for, but maybe Giuseppe Ungaretti? Italian poet, wrote a bunch of minimalist tidbits while in service - some of them are legitimately heart rending.

The most famous ones

I illuminate (myself)
with immensity

About dawn after a night spent on the watch. Or

It's like being
in the autumn
on the trees
the leaves

eloquently titled, Soldiers. Look him up.

>>8385344
Some examples of german poets: Curt Saemann, Edleff Köppen, Richard Oehring
Not sure about translations though.

>>8385344
http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/MOD/1914warpoets.html

Fordham University Sourcebook

>>8385363
One of my favorites, I had a Terrors of the 20th Century Course and the professor was into this shit:

"Anthem for a Doomed Youth"

What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
--Only the monstrous anger of the guns.
Only the stuttering rifles' rapid rattle
Can patter out their hasty orisons.
No mockeries for them from prayers or bells,
Nor any voice of mourning save the choirs,-
The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

What candles may be held to speed them all?
Not in the hands of boys, but in their eyes
Shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes.
The pallor of girls' brows shall be their pall;
Their flowers the tenderness of silent minds,

>>8385367
Also look at the folk singer Eric Bogle, he wrote two great songs,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxkhBvO8_kM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI

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>>8385363
Thanks senpaitachi.

These would all be considered modernist? The paper has the specific limitation of modernism as it's a modernist module.

>>8385372
>Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction.

I would argue that anti-war lit, especially in WW1 is a direct reaction from the near hysteria attached to imperialism and pro-war thought.

If you wanted a good paper you could find some pro-war romantic poetry from like 1914 when the call to arms was going up

>>8385380
I don't think you could describe too many British pro-war texts as modernist.

Rendezvous With Death.

The big names are much better supplied with critical reception, of course: Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, etc. Don't be afraid of the normal stuff.