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By comparing and contrasting a section of war poems consider the ways in which attitudes to war have been explored and expressed. When considering poetry written after 1900, concentrate on poems written by Wilfred Owen  

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By comparing and contrasting a section of war poems consider the ways in which attitudes to war have been explored and expressed. When considering poetry written after 1900, concentrate on poems written by Wilfred Owen By looking at several war poems written before and after 1900, I can see that many elements of the types of poetry change greatly in several ways. I will be looking at a selection of war poems written by three different poets, in chronological order, so as to see if the attitudes to war and writing styles change over time or during various stages of the war. Firstly I will be looking at a poem written by Alfred Tennyson about the charge against the Russian gunners in 1854. The poem is called "The Charge of the Light Brigade" as it is exactly what happened. The information that Tennyson used to write the poem came from a newspaper...

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