Behind Their Lines: #Poetry of the Great War. Ungaretti’s poem is unsettling when it portrays the dead comrade as less than human: like an animal, he has been “butchered,” and his clenched mouth “grinning at the full moon”. http://ow.ly/RoGV30ihR6o #Poet #AmWriting #Horror #WWI http://ow.ly/i/CI194

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