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Consider how the poets of Lamentations and Bohemians tell us about the way in which the army can be a brutal and demoralising
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Consider how the poets of Lamentations and Bohemians tell us about the way in which the army can be a brutal and demoralising institution. By Jack Wise We all know that the army is surely very tough psychologically, but surely no one from our generation can understand the pains and sufferings that men would have had to go through fighting in the First World War. The army during this time must have been devastatingly hard to cope with and indeed a demoralising institution. Ivor Gurney, author of Bohemians, and Siegfried Sassoon, author of Lamentations, convey the ideas of demoralisation in these two poems concentrating on two different viewpoints. A 'bohemian' is someone who chooses to not follow the rules and regulations set by superior powers and lives his life according to his own rules. In the poem Bohemians, Ivor Gurney explains how these were the types of soldiers who would have made life...
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