Examine different attitudes to war through comparing poetry by two poets of World War One.
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Rupert Brooke and Wilfred Owen are poets who fought for England in the First World War. Both poets depict the same topic of war, but through different views and opinions. Despite them pertaining to the similarly themed subject, their language and tone invoke contrasting feelings in readers and affects their impression of war in opposite ways. Examples of these differences can be seen in the two poems by Rupert Brook 'The Dead (iii) and 'The …
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…of Peace and War, he himself had supported the idea of, 'How sweet it is to live in peace with others, but sweeter still far more meet to die in war with brothers. ' Therefore, it would be concluded that the only reason why the two poets have conflicting ideologies of war, is time. If Brooke had experienced more of the war he might have wrote later poems that portrayed the same bitterness as Owens.
…of Peace and War, he himself had supported the idea of, 'How sweet it is to live in peace with others, but sweeter still far more meet to die in war with brothers. ' Therefore, it would be concluded that the only reason why the two poets have conflicting ideologies of war, is time. If Brooke had experienced more of the war he might have wrote later poems that portrayed the same bitterness as Owens.
