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Compare two poems which show how Wilfred Owen was influenced by the experience of war
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Jennifer Miller Compare two poems which show how Wilfred Owen was influenced by the experience of war One of the greatest examples of the influence of propaganda is its use during the First World War. Across the channel thousands of men were dieing gruesome and bloody deaths, but in England the government had the public believing that war was fun, exciting and anything but the truth. The public were completely in the brain - washed. Everything was censored, even down to the letters written home by the soldiers themselves. At first it wasn't hard for the army to find young recruits, eager to fight for their country. But as the war intensified, it began to get harder and harder to find new soldiers. Poems were published, by such writers as Jesse Poppe, glorifying war. These were used to encourage youthful boys that death in was honourable and therefore to join the army...
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