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Compare the attitudes of patriotic and realistic poems towards the war.
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Compare the attitudes of patriotic and realistic poems towards the war. World war one took place from 1914 to1918 and was between the allies that included Britain and France against the Ottoman Empire that included Germany and Austria. The war had a big impact on the modern world because it affected nearly every country in the world. The poems the government used to encourage young men to fight were patriotic poems these were used because there was no sign of the realities of war in there. The government also prevented the truth leaving the battlefield by using a censor, Wilfred Owen was a censor, his duty was to read al the letters sent by soldiers and cross off all the things which gave a negative view of the war. Because Wilfred own was a censor no one read his letters, so then he and some soldiers began to right poems about war as...
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