To exemplify this "War" by Joseph Leftwich highlights its repetition and lack of results, "Other People" by Chris Wallace-Crabbe demonstrates the futility of dying for a frivolous cause, and blaming the people who wage wars: "Who made the law?" by Leslie Coulson demonstrates its uselessness by showing the destruction that war brings with it. Next, it is evident that war poetry has the power to influence the reader's perspective of war as a result of the way in which the authors have positioned readers to recognize the futility of war by describing the effect it has on soldiers and war observers.