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Choose two of the poems you have studied and consider the views of war presented by each poet - How does each poet feel about war and how does each convey these feelings?
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Choose two of the poems you have studied and consider the views of war presented by each poet. How does each poet feel about war and how does each convey these feelings? My selected poems are 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke and 'Dulce et Decorum est' by Wilfred Owen. Both war poems but conveying their different feelings and presenting their views of war in radically different ways. The poets have polarized views of war with Rupert Brooke writing his poem in a romanticized and patriotic way referring to the possibility of death as a noble cause, for England the land that gave him life. This is at odds to how Wilfred Owen views the reality and horror of war. The poets choice of title 'Dulce et Decorum est' which translated means 'It is lovely and honourable to die for your country' which in its self is irony, misleads you to think that the...
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