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Comparing Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen with The Soldier by Rupert Brooke.
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Comparing Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen with The Soldier by Rupert Brooke by Mohammed Bakir If ever proof were needed that the 19th century was truly over, it came in the shape of the First World War. The horrors of that conflagration scarred the English psyche to an extent that marked the end of an era - no more would sentimental Victorian poets talk about death and honour in the same breath. More than anything else, the conflict that decimated a generation of young Europeans opened the public's eyes to the sheer inhumanity of large-scale trench warfare and the pointlessness of it all. During the First World War men left their homes to fight against the Germans with the idea of serving England by dying. However, after experiencing war and its horrors, many started doubting this idea and some went as far as completely rejecting it. In the suppressed emotion...
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