One of the bitterest anti-war songs is Country Joe's "Fixin' to die Rag"
(though hardly great poetry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBdeC...eature=related
This fits the genre of satirical anti-war songs written by soldiers--there
were many from WWI; see the discussion at
http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/fish...ongs/les01.htm of the many
versions of "I Don't Want to be a Soldier".
I think that the Irish and the Czech's, having been under foreign domination for
centuries, have a lot of anti-war songs. The lyrics to one Czech song are particularly
funny:
(Rough translation):
Johnny, if you had obeyed your mommy,
you wouldn't wearing a saber at your hip
and a black horse, you wouldn't be obeying a stranger.