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Comparison of ‘Dirge Of The Dead Sisters’ by Rudyard Kipling and ‘War’ by Edgar Wallace
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Comparison of 'Dirge Of The Dead Sisters' by Rudyard Kipling and 'War' by Edgar Wallace In 'Dirge Of The Dead Sisters' and 'War', Edgar Wallace and Rudyard Kipling express different views on war. Kipling's focus is on the Role Of woman whereas Wallace shows the role of men. Wallace gives an insight into the gory operation on soldiers straight from the front line and their horrid death referred to as 'it'. Kipling's quite different as the poem describes nurses and their struggle as they care for soldiers behind the front line. Both poems show the roles of men and women who gave their lives for war, but in different ways. The Boer War took place between 1899-1902. In this period around 28,000 British soldiers lost their lives in the South of Africa. This horrific war was the consequence of British miners lured to Africa after the discovery of gold deposits....
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