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Compare 2 war poems demonstrating an awareness of the poets' attitudes towards war.
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Compare 2 war poems demonstrating an awareness of the poets' attitudes towards war. The two poems that will be studied are "Dulce et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen and "War Photographer" by Carol Ann Duffy. These poems were written during completely different periods, "Dulce et Decorum Est" was written at some stage during World War One (1914-1918), whereas "War Photographer" was written much later, sometime during the 1970s about various wars. Wilfred Owen fought in the First World War. He had a negative attitude to war; he was a pacifist and reflected his opposition to conflict throughout his poems. Although he disliked the very thought of war, he did join the army, and was therefore writing about personal experience. Owen wrote his poems to give outsiders an idea of what the reality of fighting in a war was really like. He wanted to warn youngsters, that although they might believe that it...
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