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Compare How The War Poets Showed Different Attitudes to World War One Through Their Poems.
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Compare How The War Poets Showed Different Attitudes to World War One Through Their Poems A few years into the war, there was a lack of recruitment and so people started to print recruitment poems. These were designed to help encourage men to sign up. These poems were successful and more people signed up to fight, thinking that war is like a game. Towards the end of the war, poets such as Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon started to right poems about the reality of the war. I am going to compare one of Jessie Pope's recruitment poems with some of Owen and Sassoon's poems. The recruitment poems portrayed images that indicated that war was a fun game and that anyone that fought would make their families proud. Some poems make people feel guilty for not signing up and would make men ashamed if they did not join up to defend their country. Owen...
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