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How and Why did war poetry change during the years 1914 – 1918
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How and Why did war poetry change during the years 1914 - 1918? Many different occurrences triggered the first world war, but in July 1914 Arch Duke of the Austrio-Hungarian empire; Franz Ferdinand was assassinated on the 28th of July. One month later on the 1st of August; Germany declares war on Russia. During and up to the war there was lots of propaganda and persuasion posters to make people join up. These proved very effective and many people, after years of boring and tiresome work, joined up for an opportunity to see the world. The war was presented as an adventure and it convinced people very quickly to join up with little or no training and a lot of young teenagers were packed off as they had lied about their age. After the first couple of major rushes to join, young women were persuaded into handing out white feathers to the...
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