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Compare the attitudes to war in the three poems.
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Compare the attitudes to war in the three poems. 'Rule Britannia' was written in 1740. The title 'Rule' causes the reader to think that it is a command by God. You only find this out when you have the read the poem through once. You can only understand the title you have read the line 'at heavens command'. Rule Britannia is an extremely patriotic poem which creates the image that Britain is the place of the Lord and Britain is the best. This image is implied by: 'Arose from out the azure land, This was the charter of the land, And guardian angels sung the strain' This poem was written before Britain went to war with Spain. The writer would have wanted to unite Britain, make then know that the sea was theirs. He would of wanted to make the British proud. This was accomplished by the James Thomson describing Britain as the best...
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