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Discuss how a variety of Pre-1914 poets treat the theme of war. You should discuss 5 or 6 poems comparing and contrasting them. In this essay, I will focus upon the attitudes people held towards war in the pre 1914 era by studying the language and cultural context used over a number of poems. The poems I will be examining are: The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna by Charles Wolfe, The Charge of the Light Brigade, by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night, by Walt Whitman, Before Agincourt, by William Shakespeare, and Henry V at the Siege of Harfleur, also by William Shakespeare. There are a number of conflicting views represented in this essay. War around the time of 1914 was looked upon as a number of things, e.g. a sport, noble and honourable, and war itself was generally very glorified, meaning most...

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