Brian Turner's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

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In Brian Turner’s work about war experiences as a soldier, battling post-traumatic stress disorder as well as the never-ending violence in the war fronts provide an impression of how wars both unify and separate people. Turner uses structure and imagery to show unity amongst the people affected by wars. Further, Turner gives weight to the fact that war poetry would continue since a culture of understanding through suffering and loss is inevitable as people shift from one war to another. Turner's work provides true accounts of what goes on in the society as opposed to many poets who are not in touch with the reality. Authors employ poetry in times of war to provide their readers with the impression that war is a universal negative, which every