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By comparing the extracts from testament of youth, the ghost road and Binyon’s for the fallen and referring to your wider reading examine how typical in both style and treatment of subject matter these writings are of literature from or about world war on
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By comparing the extracts from testament of youth, the ghost road and Binyon's for the fallen and referring to your wider reading examine how typical in both style and treatment of subject matter these writings are of literature from or about world war one. Timing has a significant effect when war literature is written as does whether the source was a first hand account or a work written from others sources. Laurence Binyon wrote 'For the Fallen' in 1914 when war had just broke out and at this time people were joyous and glad of the excitement of war, Binyon reflects this view as he personifies England as a 'mother for her children' describing England as a caring character unwillingly sending her children to their deaths for 'the cause of the free'. This patriotism and duty seen by 'death august and royal' were wide spread, and although there were deaths the...
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