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Attitudes towards war as shown in the poetry that I have read and related to other readings.
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Attitudes towards war as shown in the poetry that I have read and related to other readings. "If literature should not only indicate how mankind thinks, but also how mankind feels, then the poems of the First World War succeed on both counts." War poets represent the attitudes of the average British soldier who, although facing the same horrors, may clearly have had a different perspective of the conflict to that presented by some of the poets. Giving the phrase 'war poet,' some might see as someone who wrote poems during the war, however, I believe that it is someone that is expected to protest that war is exploitation - a war poet was expected to be a representative - he had to speak for the nation and steel its heart for battle. Through, the poetry of Owen and Rosenberg the war was dehumanising; it brought home how quickly and easily mankind...
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