Compare the war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon - Include an analysis of at least two poems by each poet - Try to place both poets into general context of poems about The First World War.

... Compare the war poetry of Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon. Include an analysis of at least two poems by each poet. Try to place both poets into general context of poems about The First World War. People wrote poetry in the war because they wanted people to think that war was a good thing and that if you went you would be rewarded when you came back. They also wrote it because there was no Television and Radios so poetry was the way people got their ideas across. The attitude of people during the war, war that mums were encouraging their children to join up but actually they were sending them to their death. People were very patriotic in that period of time. Rupert Brook did not really have an experience of the war, he never saw any real action. On the way to battle Brooke died of poisoning to the blood. On

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