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Comment on the ways in which First World War poets balance the ideas of hope and hopelessness in their poems.
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Comment on the ways in which First World War poets balance the ideas of hope and hopelessness in their poems In the First World War there were many poems written. The four I am writing about were written in two different periods in time. Two of them were written in the first part of world war one when there was a glorified image of what war was like. The other two were written towards the latter part of the war when the images conjured up are far more horrific. The men who wrote these poems were very courageous, as they could have been shot for writing this type of material. In the poem 'The Dead' the structure gives hope. It does this by having rhyming couplets like 'cares' and 'theirs'. This continues throughout the poem giving a sense of orderliness. The reader is made to feel safe and that there is little...
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