Ramathi Bandaranayake

I am a final year student at the Colombo International School, Colombo, Sri Lanka. I am a student of A Level Literature and have been a fan of First World War poetry and novels from a very young age. I believe that reading and studying the anti-war literature that grew out of this period enables us to understand the cruelty and futility of human conflict, and if the message propagated by these works is universally understood, the vast number of unnecessary conflicts and the unimaginable human suffering they engender could perhaps be lessened.