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Basing your answer on three of the poems write a comparison of the ways the writers present attitudes to the war.
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Basing your answer on three of the poems write a comparison of the ways the writers present attitudes to the war. In your comparison you should refer to the works studied so far to offer a judgement of how typical these writings are for enthusiasm for war. War poetry prior to 1914 captured the excitement of war due to the success of the British army in conquering and expanding its empire. Poetry previous to 1900 therefore, focused on the victory of fighting, such as Newbolt's Vitai Lampada. At the start of the First World War there was a surge of recruitment poems that captured a similar passion such as Jessie Pope's 'Who's for the Game' whilst others placed pressure on young men to join in fighting such as Betham-Edwards' 'The Two Mothers'. These three poems can each be compared to show writers attitudes to war and if these attitudes were...
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