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Discussing two poems, War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy and Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen respectively.
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Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Today I'm going to focus mainly on two poems, War Photographer by Carol Ann Duffy and Dulce et decorum est by Wilfred Owen respectively. Both of them are war poems but are written from different perspectives. War Photographer is from the point of view of a war photographer and Dulce et decorum est is written from the view of a soldier. We can observe the contrast between different roles performed by different people in war. The soldiers are the one doing all the fighting in the frontline, which seems that it will never end, and is highlighted by the phrase "and towards our distant rest began to trudge." "Distant rest" can symbolize death, as the soldiers can only rest and achieve peace through death, having a meaning that the soldiers have to fight on until the moment they die. As for the tasks of...
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