The collateral damage

  Drawing evidence from three poems, discuss the collateral damage of war, by which I mean the civilian, infrastructural, and/or environmental consequences of war. What do our poets have to say about the non-military devastation wrought by war? How do they say it? What tones or images help them capture the realities of collateral damage and what do these rhetorical choices allow them to argue? The question should be argumentative in nature and supported by analysis of evidence from the texts.