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Does the Poetry of the First World War reflect the changing attitudes to War?
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Does the Poetry of the First World War reflect the changing attitudes to War? Poems in the early part of the First World War were 'pro war' which means that they were saying that the war was good fun with women and uniforms. The main aims of the poems were to get men to join the army and fight the Germans. After two years of the war in July 1916 the battle of the Somme took place, 60,000 English soldiers died each day. Anti war poems started to be written about how bad war really was, but these poems were hardly ever published in newspapers or magazines, as they still wanted men to join up to fight. The two 'pro war' poems that I have chosen are 'Fall In' by Harold Begbie and 'Who's for the Game' by Jessie Pope. The Recruiting poems of 1914 were required because, unlike most European countries,...
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