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Compare the ways in which the three poets you have studied attempted to present the reality of war. How do you think the contemporary audience would have responded to these poems?
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Compare the ways in which the three poets you have studied attempted to present the reality of war. How do you think the contemporary audience would have responded to these poems? The First World War was unlike any previous was Britain had ever fought. The horror of both the physical conditions and the reality of battle moved soldier and officer alike to express their reactions in verse. The soldiers' shock at the contrast between their experiences and their previous conceptions of war as described by the propaganda at home made many soldiers angry and bitter, which is reflected in all of these poems. The poets intended to shock the complacent and naïve British public into an awareness of the brutal horrors faced by the soldiers at the front. The audience's lack of understanding was due to the propaganda, which had fostered the belief, during previous years of small colonial wars, that...
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