Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Seeger an ba da rahoton ƙarya bayan yaƙin Champagne
a watan Oktoba 1915, a cikin abin da ya yi yaƙi. Labarin mutuwarsa na ainihi ya sadu da baƙin ciki na jama'a a Amurka da Faransa. Bayan da Amurka ta shiga yakin duniya na farko, "Poems", wanda aka buga bayan mutuwar Seeger na waƙoƙin yaƙi, an sayar da bugu shida a cikin shekara guda. Mawallafin Edwin Arlington Robinson, wanda ya bayyana Seeger a matsayin "Hedonist" bayan ya sadu da shi a 1911, ya nuna cewa zai iya zama mafi kyau idan ya mutu a yakin, "domin ban yi imani da cewa zai taba zuwa ko'ina kusa da dacewa da kansa a cikin wannan duniya mai ban sha'awa amma wani lokacin ba shi da kyau".