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Compare and contrast ‘MCMXIV' by Philip Larkin and ‘Six Young Men' by Ted Hughes.
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Compare and contrast 'MCMXIV' by Philip Larkin and 'Six Young Men' by Ted Hughes. The First World War was a landmark event in the twentieth century. In terms of social attitude, it marked a transition from a stable orderly world to a more modern age, and with that "modern" age there came a brutal, cynical view of society's government and a lack of trust in its leaders. First World War poets like Siegfried Sassoon expressed this hardened and more savage viewpoint in their poetry attacking the military leaders and governments, and this change of view and tone (from innocent to cynical) has been of interest to poets of the following generations. The poems I am going to compare and contrast, 'MCMXIV' by Philip Larkin and 'Six Young men' by Ted Hughes, were both written at least half a century after the First World War. This shows the importance of the event to...
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