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Comparing Two War Poems By Wilfred Owen and Maurice Hewlett.
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Comparing Two War Poems By Wilfred Owen and Maurice Hewlett During the first and second world war many young men were forced into the army and the services many leaving their young families or mother's and sisters. This was a very difficult time for both the men who were leaving to fight and risk their lives and for the women and children they left behind. One of the poems I have picked is in the eyes of a mother and child it is called "For Two Voices" and is written by Hewlett. The mother speaks the true brutality of war and the child sees the glorious and heroic side of war. My second choice was "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Owen. This is a devastating poem written by a man who first wet to war with a heroic vision in his head, just like the one of the child...
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