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Compare and contrast how the poems you have studied demonstrate both changing attitudes to war, and changing attitudes to poetic language, over the last hundred years.
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Compare and contrast how the poems you have studied demonstrate both changing attitudes to war, and changing attitudes to poetic language, over the last hundred years The war poems that I have chosen to do are Vitai Lampada (Henry Newbolt), Dulce et decorum est and Exposure (Wilfred Owen), Icarus Allsorts (Roger McGough). I will mainly be focusing on Wilfred Owens two poems. Vitai Lampada is the only recruiting poem that I will be doing. It taunts the readers into considering going to fight for their empire. It plays on their pride and provokes them with superiority and material wealth. In these next poems you will notice a complete change in the style and theme of the poems. In Exposure Owen uses very vivid gruesome descriptions and truly gives a realistic account of what warfare was like. He puts across throughout the poem that boredom and cold weather is the main enemy to the soldiers....
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