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Compare and contrast the different attitudes towards war that you have studied in the Martin anthology.
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Q. Compare and contrast the different attitudes towards war that you have studied in the Martin anthology. War has many different viewpoints. Some say that going to war is an adventure, and a way of becoming a hero, but others - usually those who have experienced it - say otherwise. Many people have written poetry on war - some advertising war as a good thing, and others recalling their harrowing experiences. Jessie Pope was a poet who I will be writing about. Her poems can be described as propagandist. Another poet who was pro war was Rupert Brooke. Poets who were very anti-war included Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. As mentioned, Jessie Pope was a poet who saw war as a good thing. In one of her poems called 'Who's for the game?' she portrays war as a sports game such as rugby: 'Who'll grip and tackle the job unafraid?' Pope encourages young men...
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