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Compare and Analyze to two poems, "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke and "Dulce Et Decorum Est " by Wilfred Owen. Look at their content, language, form (structure), tune, imaginary content and message. World War I, probably the most horrible of modern wars, inspired some of the most beautiful and powerful poetry of the 20th century. Two very good examples are "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke and "Dulce Et Decorum Est " by Wilfred Owen, both were written before and during the this war. Rupert Brooke was a well- educated English man who lived the enthusiasm of the whole country when the war started. He wrote this and many other poems with the illusion of a very short war with a happy-ending. He joined the army and went to war. However, he didn't have the chance to fight because during the journey to the front he died from mosquito poison....

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