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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? The war began in 1914, when Europe was divided into two great alliances: Britain and her empire, France, Russia, Serbia and Italy. They were against there enemies Germany, Austria, hunger and turkey. The main trigger of the war was the assassination of arch duke Franz Ferdinand. By the end of the war over 8 million had died and over 20 million had been injured. Britain unlike other countries had huge conscript armies which relied on a small professional force. Lord Kitchener, secretary of state for war realised that the more men they had to fight the more chance they had of winning the war. He proposed a revolutionary plan for new armies of millions of volunteers. This is when the recruitment drive started and many ways of getting young me to join up were introduced from posters to poetry. In 1916 young...
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