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Comparison of Three First World War Poems
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Comparison of Three First World War Poems The three poems that I will be studying in this essay are "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen, "Comrades: An Episode" by Robert Nichols and "Who's For The Game?" by Jessie Pope. These poems are about the First World War and two of them seem to have a negative attitude criticising and downgrading the so-called spectacular experience of the First World War. In "Dulce Et Decorum Est" Wilfred Owen seems to mention good aspects of the War but compares them to low-class tragic events. In "Comrades: An Episode" Robert Nichols describes the event of a soldier being badly injured and eventually dying. It describes what the corporals and soldiers did and how they reacted to the situation. However, Jessie Pope's poem "Who's For the Game?" talks about war as if it is a joke and the scary aspect of the war is...
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