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GCSE War Poetry Essay Is it Sweet and Fitting to die for your country? War begins with everybody caught up
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GCSE War Poetry Essay Is it Sweet and Fitting to die for your country? War begins with everybody caught up in the atmosphere and ready to fight, which was the case during 1914. Young men would raise their heads high and fell privileged to be able to fight for their country. This patriotic fervour would spread round deceiving young innocent minds about the harsh nature of war. Men like Rupert Brooke, 'The Soldier' added to all the 'hype' until war progressed; all that is left is death. John Scott and Wilfred Owen both share a hatred of war as revealed in the 'Drum' and 'Dulce et Decorum est'. Respectively the two poems may both be anti-war but the manner in which in which they attack war is different. The former, being a Quaker, hated all means of war but had no experience of war as a soldier; hence...
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