"The Next War" is a poem by Wilfred Owen. It was written in late September 1917, and revised in July 1918. It is no. 160 in The Complete Poems and Fragments.
The poem is among those set in the War Requiem of Benjamin Britten.
Content
The poem is in a sonnet form and follows a conventional sonnet structure. It starts out with a quote from Siegfried Sassoon.
The poem goes on to declare that death is not the enemy and that better men will replace them on the battlefield. It ends with:
References
The Next War (poem) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA