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Comparing two poems - The poems Joining the Colours and The Send-off both discuss, young, guileless boys marching off to war.
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Comparing two poems. Katy Proud The poems Joining the Colours and The Send-off both discuss, young, guileless boys marching off to war. The Send-off is written by Wilfred Owen, and ex-soldier, which explains why the reader aquires a deeper understanding of war and it's sinister quality. Whereas Katherine Tynan writes Joining the Colours, so it analyses the way in which the women left behind are affected. In both poems we can see that the authors have a greater appreciation of the war and of the soldiers future than the soldiers themselves do. Either from an ex-soldiers perspective or a woman's. The tones of the poems are different due to perspective of the poets. Katherine Tynan {Joining the Colours} is a female and has only ever-experienced war from the home front. I think that the fact of her sex is indicated in the title because "Joining the Colours" suggests that it...
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