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Comparing 'Peace' and 'The Volunteer'.
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COMPARING "PEACE" AND "THE VOLUNTEER" It was "The War To End All Wars," a senseless slaughter that set the stage for the bloodiest century in human history. The First World War provides one of the seminal moments of the twentieth-century in which literate soldiers, plunged into inhuman conditions, reacted to their surroundings in poems. There were a number of famous poets who wrote war poetry, and a number of different reactions to war. Some poets approved of war, or found it honourable, and others disapproved of war, or found it futile and pointless. Rupert Brooke and Herbert Asquith fall in the first category. This is evident in their poems, as they glorify the war in a naïve and romantic way. "Peace" by Rupert Brooke, and "The Volunteer" by Herbert Asquith, are two poems that seem to be very similar, yet, at the same time are eerily different. They both...
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