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Explore the different ways in which "The Send Off" and "Joining The Colours" reveal each poets feelings about soldiers leaving for war. The poems "The Send Off and "Joining the Colours" are both quite similar, they
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... Explore the different ways in which "The Send Off" and "Joining The Colours" reveal each poets feelings about soldiers leaving for war. The poems "The Send Off and "Joining the Colours" are both quite similar, they are both about soldiers leaving for the war, however in "The Send Off" the men are returning to the front, we know this as the men seem to know their fate, they have gone to war before, they know what it is really like and they know that they are going off to die: "And lined the train with faces grimly gay", this is an oxymoron it is like the soldiers are faking happy and trying to get through this even though this sentence reminds you of death, another indication that these men know their fate is: "A few, a few, too few for drums and yells" the soldiers know that hardly any of them
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